We spend a great deal of energy in this country worrying about imported food. FSMA gave FDA the Foreign Supplier Verification Program, which makes the American importer responsible for confirming that a foreign supplier produces food in a way
In July I wrote that I had bought Congress a t-shirt — one for every member. The shirts arrived in August. This month they are being hand-delivered, and I have narrowed the aim.
Seventy-seven offices are getting two shirts each,
Yes, it is past time for a warning label on sprouts. I first asked FDA for one in 2000. Twenty-six years later nobody has to invent it — the government wrote the template in 1998 and put it on a
Eben-Haezer’s Happy Hens of Ramona, California has posted two new Instagram reels, embedded on its own website as of September 11, 2026, arguing that the Salmonella FDA found in its hen houses does not tie its eggs to anyone’s illness because the
On September 11, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the multistate Cyclospora outbreak linked to Taylor Farms de Mexico iceberg lettuce over. The final count is 12,883 laboratory-confirmed illnesses, 570 hospitalizations and 2 deaths, both in Michigan, across
When FDA closed #1382, a fourteen-person E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, it named romaine lettuce as the likely source and said on its CORE investigations table that the product was beyond shelf life by the time investigators identified it. It named no
Federal officials are poised to declare the end of the largest known Cyclospora outbreak in the history of the United States. I did not learn that from CDC or FDA. As I write this, CDC’s own outbreak page, stamped September 3,
On September 10, 2026, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration closed its investigation into a fourteen-person E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, reference #1382, and for the first time told the public what the food was: romaine lettuce. It named no grower, no processor,
FDA’s internal records on two E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks linked to Raw Farm LLC of Fresno, California, show the agency suspected in February 2024 that Raw Farm was putting milk from cows that had tested preliminary positive for pathogens into its raw
The seed supplier FDA has declined to name in the alfalfa sprout outbreak that has sickened 55 people in 15 states is International Sprout Holdings, Inc., which does business as International Specialty Supply in Cookeville, Tennessee. My friend Phyllis Entis,
