Ten people, restaurant employees and customers among them, have been sickened with Salmonella in a cluster tied to Woods Hill Table, the farm-to-table restaurant on Commonwealth Avenue in West Concord, Massachusetts. Concord’s public health director began investigating on September 8, 2026, the
Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC of Moyie Springs, Idaho posted its broccoli sprout recall on FDA’s recall page on September 10, 2026, six days after the company says it stopped shipping. The notice covers 215 cases of six four-ounce bags each,
Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC of Moyie Springs, Idaho has recalled its broccoli sprouts because of Salmonella, and as of September 11, 2026 the recall notice is posted on FDA’s website. Twenty-two people in Washington, Montana, Idaho and Utah are sick
The outbreak in the news this week is a Salmonella outbreak, not an E. coli outbreak. It belongs on this blog anyway, because the company at the center of it is the same Idaho sprouter that caused a multistate E. coliO121 outbreak twelve years ago
As of September 6, 2026, the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Javiana linked to fresh jalapeño peppers has sickened 431 people in 32 states. Fifty-seven have been hospitalized and no deaths have been reported. The peppers were grown in Sinaloa, Mexico and imported
Two separate sprout outbreaks are under investigation in the United States right now, and Salmonella is in both of them. Sixteen people in Washington, Montana and Idaho are sick with Salmonella Bovismorbificans after eating broccoli sprouts grown by Evergreen Fresh Sprouts, LLC of Moyie
CDC declared the multistate Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to Midwest Poultry Services shell eggs over on September 3, 2026, and FDA closed its investigation the same day. The final count is 134 people sick in 18 states, 34 of them hospitalized, and
San Diego County announced on the afternoon of September 4, 2026 that Salmonella found inside the hen houses at Happy Hens, a poultry farm in Ramona, is genetically linked to the strain that has been making people sick across the county. The
The Bear River Health Department announced on September 1, 2026 that twenty-one people in Cache and Box Elder Counties in northern Utah have laboratory-confirmed Salmonella infections, and that the source of the outbreak is still under investigation. As of September 3, the
There are two Salmonella species: Salmonella enterica (S. enterica) and Salmonella bongori (S. bongori). S. bongori strains predominantly colonize cold-blooded reptiles, whereas S. enterica strains are capable of infecting both humans and mammals.[1] Based on factors such as morphology, structure, mode of reproduction, and other criteria, the two species
