The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service issued Public Health Alert 08082026-01 this morning, covering meat and poultry products made with the FDA-regulated jalapeños recalled in the Salmonella Javiana outbreak. The product list runs to eighteen items sold at Kroger, Dillons, H-E-B, Walmart, Albertsons, Randalls, Tom Thumb, Hannaford, RaceTrac and Wawa, in
City Foods, Inc., a Chicago establishment doing business as Bea’s Best Corned Beef, is recalling approximately 3,215 pounds of ready-to-eat pastrami and corned beef that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. All of it was produced on a single day, July 16, 2026, and
If you want to know which jalapeño products have actually been pulled from store shelves in the Salmonella Javiana outbreak, there is exactly one place to find them gathered in one spot. It is not fda.gov. It is not a press release from the company doing the recalling. It is eFoodAlert, where Phyllis Entis
FDA keeps a public list of every outbreak its CORE Response Teams are working, and it is the only place in the federal government where you can see how many foodborne illness investigations are open at one time. The page is called Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks, it was last updated on August 6
Lexunder Inc., doing business as Food To Live of Brooklyn, New York, is recalling its Food to Live brand green powder products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. FDA posted the company announcement on August 7, 2026.
The recall came about the way too many of them do — not because the company
Before 1996 this parasite was a curiosity. It was first described in people in 1979, and in the United States it was mostly a souvenir of travel. Then in the spring and summer of that year raspberries imported from Guatemala sickened roughly 1,465 people across twenty states, the District of Columbia and two Canadian provinces
Last night I wrote that FDA’s outbreak table still said 212 cases and “Not Yet Identified” while CDC had already named Sinaloa and Coast Citrus Distributors and counted 345 sick in 27 states. This morning the agency moved. Reference #1395 on the outbreak table now reads “Jalapeño Peppers.” The case-count cell no longer says 212
The fifteen states in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, as of August 5, 2026. The thirty-five states in grey are not in the outbreak; several of them are reporting cyclosporiasis cases of their own.
CDC and FDA expanded this outbreak to fifteen states and put the federal count at 6,358 illnesses. Here is that count broken
CDC published a state-by-state breakdown of the Salmonella Javiana jalapeño outbreak along with its investigation notice. Twenty-seven states, 345 confirmed illnesses, 36 hospitalizations.
| State | Ill | State | Ill |
| Alabama | 1 | North Carolina | 3 |
| Arkansas | 1 | North Dakota | 1 |
| California | 1 | Nebraska | 5 |
| Colorado | 110 | Ohio | 2 |
| Georgia | 6 | Oklahoma | 8 |
| Illinois | 30 | South Carolina | 5 |
| Indiana |
I have been tracking this outbreak daily since it began. These are the questions I am actually being asked — by reporters, by clients, and by people who just want to know whether to eat a salad. Every figure below is current as of the evening of August 5, 2026, and every one of them