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Marler Blog
Weekend Wrap-Up: Twenty-Seven Children and Adults Sick After Two Pumpkin Patches and a State Fair Petting Zoo, Three of Them With Kidney Failure. The Justice Department Told FDA in Writing That Its Own Rules Keep Outbreak Names Secret and That It Can Change Them. CDC Said the Oysters Made People Sick. And FDA Closed a Fifty-Person E. coli Outbreak Saying More Detail Would Not Have Helped You.
By Bill Marler
Saturday, October 31, 2026 Last Saturday’s edition was about two sets of books — the record the agencies keep and the one they publish. This week (week 17) the published record…
Food Poison Journal
E. coli Cases Tied to State Fair of Texas Climb to Nine – Kids in the ICU Means HUS Is Likely in the Picture
By Bill Marler
Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) is now investigating nine confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), up from seven on Tuesday. The one common thread: every patient visited…
Food Safety News
Publisher’s Platform: Twenty-two years of asking whether we should ban petting zoos: After Brookshire Farms, Bengtson’s and the State Fair of Texas, it is time I answered my own question
By Bill Marler
I have been asking the same question in print since 2004. In an op-ed called “E. coli and the Fair,” I asked, “So what do we do? Banish state and county fairs?…
Marler Blog
Two Pumpkin Farms and the State Fair of Texas: Three E. coli Investigations Tied to Animal Attractions in Five Days, in Three States. Here We Go Again.
By Bill Marler
On Tuesday afternoon, October 27, the County of San Luis Obispo Department of Public Health announcedfive confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) and an investigation into a possible link to Brookshire…
Marler Blog
Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm E. coli Outbreak: Five Sick, Petting Zoo Closed, Animals to Be Sampled Monday. What We Know, What We Don’t, and the Questions the Compendium Says Investigators Should Be Asking.
By Bill Marler
Petting zoos and E. coli. Here we go again. But instead of just reporting the case count, let’s walk through what we actually know, what we don’t, and the questions…
Food Poison Journal
Five Sickened with E. coli – Bengtson’s Pumpkin Farm Petting Zoo Closed
By Bill Marler
Petting zoos and E. coli. Here we go again. The Will County Health Department (Joliet, Illinois) is investigating five laboratory-confirmed cases of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that may be…
Marler Blog
Fifty People Sick, a Known Supplier, and FDA Still Won’t Say Its Name. That Is Wrong, and Here Is How We Fix It.
By Bill Marler
Fifty people have been sickened with E. coli O157:H7 in a multistate outbreak that FDA and USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service are investigating together as reference #1421 (USDA 2026-04). The government knows the…
Marler Blog
The FDA and USDA Still Won’t Say Who Made the Chicken Wraps in the E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak. A New Jersey Food Manufacturer’s Quality Department Has Already Contacted One of the Sick.
By Bill Marler
As of October 18, 2026, the FDA’s table of active outbreak investigations still lists 50 people sick with E. coli O157:H7 in the outbreak tied to ready-to-eat, multi-ingredient chicken wraps, FDA reference #1421 and…
Food Poison Journal
Family Farmstead Dairy Raw Mild Cheddar Is Recalled for E. coli O157:H7: 8-Ounce Packages, Lot and Best-By 7/22/27, Sold at Grocers in New York and New Jersey. No Illnesses Reported. Check Your Refrigerator.
By Bill Marler
As of October 16, 2026, Family Farmstead Dairy, LLC of Worcester, New York is recalling one lot of its Family Farmstead Raw Mild Cheddar Cheese, sold in 8-ounce packages to…
Marler Blog
Fifty Sick, One Lawsuit and Still No Name from the Government: The Chicken Wrap E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak Is the Case for Both of My Citizen Petitions
By Bill Marler
As of October 15, 2026, the FDA’s table of active outbreak investigations lists 50 people sick with E. coli O157:H7 in the outbreak it is investigating with the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service,…