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E. coli Blog
LEASA Alfalfa Sprouts Recalled for E. coli in the Seed: 4-Ounce and 6-Ounce Clamshells, Expiration Dates September 4 to 18, from a Miami Grower, as 76 People in 16 States Are Sick in the Alfalfa Sprout Outbreak
By Bill Marler
As of October 5, 2026, LEASA Industries Co., Inc. of Miami, Florida has recalled its LEASA Living Alfalfa Sprouts (4-ounce clamshells) and LEASA Alfalfa Sprouts (6-ounce clamshells) with expiration dates…
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Taylor Farms and Mexico’s Health Ministry Now Make the Same Cyclospora Argument. The Produce Industry’s Own Association, FDA and CDC Rejected It in September. Here Is a Specific Request to Eight People Before the Industry Meets in Orlando.
By Bill Marler
I spent four hours Sunday morning taking the deposition of an expert retained by the defense in the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak of November 2024 – the one traced to romaine lettuce…
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Twenty Years After Spinach: What the Produce Industry Got Right, Got Wrong, and Should Do Next
By Bill Marler
In September 2006, bagged baby spinach grown in California’s Salinas Valley sickened over 200 people with E. coli O157:H7 and killed five of them. For a few weeks you could not give…
Food Safety News
Berry recall expanded for Walmart, Trader Joe's brands
By News Desk
A company in Chile has again expanded a recall of its frozen organic berries because of a link to an E. coli O145:H28 outbreak.The outbreak has been declared over by…
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Hats Off to Annie Waldman and ProPublica: Two Little Girls, One Unlicensed Goat Dairy, E. coli O157:H7 and HUS, and California Let It Walk Away as “Pet Food”
By Bill Marler
Annie Waldman at ProPublica published a piece this morning that everyone who regulates, sells or drinks raw milk should read. It is the story of Emily Marris, her 17-month-old daughter Brooklyn, and…
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Two Calls in Twenty-Four Hours: Both Culture-Confirmed E. coli, Both Told They Are Part of a Multistate Outbreak, Both Bought a Meat-and-Vegetable Sandwich Wrap from the Same Store in Different States. If This Is FDA #1421 and FSIS 2026-04, the Wrap Explains the Two Reference Numbers.
By Bill Marler
In the last twenty-four hours, two people have called my office. Both have culture-confirmed E. coli. Both have been told they are part of a multistate E. coli outbreak linked to a food…
E. coli Blog
Sierra Nevada Cheese Company Recalls All Graziers Raw Milk Cheese for E. coli O26:H11: Every Size, Every UPC, No Lot Codes — 13 Sick in Nine States, 8 Hospitalized, 3 with HUS
By Bill Marler
Sierra Nevada Cheese Company of Willows, California, is recalling every Graziers raw milk cheese — Monterey Jack, Jalapeño Jack, Medium Cheddar and Sharp Cheddar, in 8-ounce squares, 16-ounce bricks, 5-pound…
Food Poison Journal
Twenty-Five Years of Sprout Outbreaks in the United States, in CDC’s and FDA’s Own Records: E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria, 2001 to 2026
By Bill Marler
Two sprout outbreaks are open at the same time. Alfalfa sprouts from Everything Sprouts have sickened 55 people in 15 states, four of them hospitalized, with three strains of E. coli and a Salmonella in one…
E. coli Blog
Marler Clark Retained by the Family of a Child with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome in the Graziers Raw Milk Cheese E. coli O26 Outbreak. This Is What the Missing Warning Label Costs.
By Bill Marler
Marler Clark has been retained by the family of a child who developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a form of acute kidney failure, after eating Graziers raw milk cheese made by…
E. coli Blog
E. coli O26 Outbreak: 13 Sick in California, Nevada, Colorado, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Oregon, Tennessee and Utah — 8 Hospitalized, 3 with HUS
By Bill Marler
The CDC and FDA announced on September 25, 2026, that a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O26:H11 infections has been linked to Graziers grass-fed raw milk cheese made by Sierra Nevada Cheese Company of…