The 2026 Cyclospora season closed on August 31. CDC’s national count for May 1 through August 31 is 18,445 laboratory-confirmed domestic cases, 990 hospitalizations, two deaths and forty-nine states plus the District of Columbia, against 1,180 cases in the
I read Fast Food Nation before it was a book. Eric and I have known each other a long time, and we talked through parts of Food, Inc. before it was filmed. He has been making the same argument for twenty-five years — that
A tip of the pen this morning to Matthew Perrone at the Associated Press, who has been on the lettuce Cyclospora outbreak since July and did not walk away from it when the case counts slowed down. His piece today
I have been writing this blog since 2004. Something north of five thousand posts. Nearly all of them are about somebody getting sick from something they ate, and too many are about somebody dying from it.
Here is what I
Every so often someone asks me why a recall they saw all over the news barely exists in FDA’s files, or why a recall they stumbled on in an FDA database never made the news at all. The answer is
The cyclosporiasis season closed on August 31. The counting did not. CDC now reports 18,445 laboratory-confirmed cases of domestically acquired cyclosporiasis since May 1, with 990 hospitalizations and two deaths across forty-nine states and the District of Columbia. The comparison
Newsweek reported this morning, in a piece by Aliss Higham, that a new GS1 US survey of 1,000 U.S. adults found 94 percent concerned about the frequency of food recalls, up from 93 percent in 2025 (Newsweek, September 7
Lena H. Sun and Paige Winfield Cunningham walked through each of the childhood vaccines the CDC stopped broadly recommending, in the Washington Post. Their piece is what prompted this one. It is worth your time in full. But the hepatitis
Extraordinary Circumstances
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
On Friday afternoon San Diego County published a release saying the Food and Drug Administration collected samples inside the hen houses at Eben-Haezer’s Happy Hens in Ramona, that Salmonella turned up in two of the seven houses tested, and that genetic testing
