The Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic released a report on August 25, 2026 taking the first comprehensive look at the preemption clause inside the draft FRESH Act. Margaret Lynn and Emily Broad Leib conclude that a
The cyclosporiasis season that CDC defines, May 1 through August 31, closed yesterday, August 31, 2026. It closes with 17,180 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis acquired in the United States, 922 hospitalizations and two deaths across forty-eight states and the District
The Food and Drug Administration’s outbreak response network, CORE, closed the ByHeart infant botulism investigation with an Executive Incident Summary dated May 1, 2026, filed as CARA #1350. It counts 48 infants in 17 states, 28 confirmed and 20
As of August 31, 2026, 55 people in 15 states are sick with Salmonella Agona or one of three strains of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli after eating alfalfa sprouts, four of them hospitalized, none dead, with illness onsets running May 31 through August 8.
Happy Hens, the Ramona poultry farm San Diego County named as the source of the eggs in the SalmonellaEnteritidis outbreak that has sickened twenty-three people and hospitalized seven, announced on its own Instagram account on Sunday, August 31, 2026, that FDA
In the morning I’ll stand in front of a room of Latin American growers, processors, and auditors at the Congreso Latam de Inocuidad Alimentaria in Puerto Vallarta and say something that ought to be Washington’s job to say: the United
The CDC’s official multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis is four midwestern states — Michigan, Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky — and just over 400 cases it has managed to tie to a yet unnamed, common, source. That is the number the word
On July 14, Senator Amy Klobuchar sent a letter to the acting heads of the CDC and FDA asking them to restore the food-safety programs this administration cut and start tracking foodborne illness again. She named them — FoodNet, the
Depending on where you look, each state in this outbreak has as many as three different case counts, and they rarely match. The CDC’s public map reports a range of lab-confirmed, domestically acquired cases. Each state health department keeps its
Somewhere north of 4,000 people are sick with Cyclospora this summer, and the agency that is supposed to track them says it can confirm 843. That is not a rounding error. That is the whole story.
State health departments, tallied by NBC
