The CDC and FDA announced on September 25, 2026, that a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O26:H11 infections has been linked to Graziers grass-fed raw milk cheese made by Sierra Nevada Cheese Company of Willows, California. Thirteen people are sick: three each in California and Nevada, and one each in Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky
As of September 24, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counts 1,253 people in 46 states and Puerto Rico infected with seven strains of Salmonella after contact with backyard chicks, chickens, ducklings and ducks; 256 of them were hospitalized and two died, one in Georgia and one in Washington. CDC closed the investigation
FDA posted a warning letter on September 22, 2026 telling Viva Raw LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina that raw pet food it sold in the summer of 2025 was adulterated: Salmonella Enteritidis in Viva Raw Pure Chicken Pet Food Mixer and Viva Raw Chunked Chicken Dog Food, and Listeria monocytogenes in Viva Raw Ground Turkey
The frozen blueberry E. coli O145:H28 outbreak is over. On September 21, 2026, CDC closed it at 17 sick in Florida and Georgia, 6 hospitalized and no deaths, all tied to frozen organic blueberries packed by Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile, and sold as Publix GreenWise blueberries and mixed berries
As of September 17, CDC counts 37 people with hepatitis A in four states linked to imported frozen blood clams, 30 of them hospitalized, none dead, with illness onsets running from July 30, 2025 to June 23, 2026. FDA’s safety alert for the same clams — the page a restaurant, an inspector or a home
On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced a Class I recall of approximately 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products from Star Meat Delivery Inc. of North Carolina, produced without federal inspection and stamped with a counterfeit USDA mark of inspection reading EST. 1363. The meat went to
FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network has posted Executive Incident Summary abstracts for five 2026 outbreak investigations: Salmonella in Mogo moringa capsules (ref #1377) and Rosabella moringa capsules (#1365), E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Farm raw cheddar and raw milk (#1369), Salmonella Newport in Guatemalan cantaloupe (#1366), and Listeria monocytogenes in Clover Hill
Vermont officials announced a recall of shell eggs from Leaping Bear Farm of Reading on September 11, 2026, after finding Salmonella Enteritidis in both the eggs and environmental samples at the farm. The Vermont Department of Health has linked fourteen Vermont illnesses to the strain, and other states have genetically linked cases. The recall covers
Connecticut is telling consumers to throw away every bottle of Phire in the Hole hot sauce they own. On September 11, 2026, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection issued a consumer alert and a cease-and-desist order to Phire in the Hole of Monroe, Connecticut, after finding that the company’s hot sauces were made without a
Fi, the New York pet-technology company, is recalling two lots of dog supplements because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. The recalled products are Fi Calming supplement for Dogs, 180 g, lot 26118, and Fi 8-in-1 Formula supplement for Dogs, 180 g, lot 26159. They were sold direct to consumers and through Amazon and
CDC updated its Cyclospora case-data page today, September 8, 2026. It now reports 19,595 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis acquired in this country since May 1, 1,043 hospitalizations, two deaths and cases in forty-nine states plus the District of Columbia, against 1,180 for the whole of last season. The federal outbreak linked to Taylor Farms de