The New Lede reported last week on a Farm Forward analysis of USDA sampling data that ought to end a long-running argument about how we measure progress on Salmonella in poultry. Between 2014 and 2025, three serotypes — Infantis, Enteritidis
Infant botulism is normally sporadic; most cases involve one infant, one household, and no single identified commercial source. Bacterial spores are widely present in soil and dust around the country and therefore may cause sporadic, random infections. A
The 2026 cyclosporiasis season closed on August 31. Between July 14 and August 13, thirteen letters went from members of the House and Senate to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, to the acting heads of FDA and
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Marler Clark represents people sickened by E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, Cyclospora, Vibrio and botulism — from a single family to a thousand-plaintiff outbreak, tens of thousands of clients and over
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Marler Clark has been suing the companies that poison people since 1993 — since a nine-year-old girl named Brianne Kiner nearly died from a hamburger. Sixteen years later it
Saturday, September 5, 2026
This is the ninth Saturday column. Last Saturday’s edition ran under the headline The Federal CyclosporaOutbreak Added 528 People, 41 Hospitalizations and Three New States on the Last Thursday of the Season, and it closed on a
San Diego County published a new release at 4:37 this afternoon, and it closes the hole that has sat in the middle of this outbreak for six weeks. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration collected samples inside the Happy Hens
Peter Barton Hutt died on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. He was 91. The Critical Path Institute, where he sat on the board, announced it the next day. The Personal Care Products Council called him the “Father of Modern Food
I have spent more than 30 years suing food companies that poisoned people. I have said, more times than I can count, that my goal is to be put out of business by an industry that stops making people sick.
On September 2 the Washington State Department of Health posted an outbreak notice linking thirteen Salmonella Bovismorbificans illnesses in seven Washington counties to broccoli sprouts produced by Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC of Moyie Springs, Idaho. Two more people are sick in Montana
