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
Quick answer: As of September 3, 2026, CDC counts 17 people infected with E. coli O145 after eating frozen organic blueberries from Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile. Thirteen live in Florida and four in Georgia; six
The Reagan-Udall Foundation for the FDA has published Applying the Science of Infant Formula Safety, a 44-page report on a July 13, 2026 roundtable about Clostridium botulinum in powdered infant formula. Two lines on the cover tell you how to read
Eric Schlosser has a piece in The Atlantic this morning, and if you read one thing about food safety this week, read that. Eric is a friend. He wrote Fast Food Nation a quarter century ago, when fecal contamination
On August 27, the same day FDA and CDC declared the Nara Organics infant botulism outbreak over, the company posted an update announcing that it plans to bring its formula back to U.S. shelves with European dairy and what it
Consumers are buying less fresh produce this summer, and they are doing it because of what they have read, not because they are confused. Salad-kit purchases, lettuce prices, restaurant traffic and produce shipments all fell after the Cyclospora outbreak went public in
Every Wednesday I read three government pages in a row. Tonight they told three different stories, and the difference between them is the most useful thing on any of them.
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CDC updated its current outbreaks page
