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Outbreak
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Marler Blog
FDA Says the E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak It Shares With USDA Came From Ready-to-Eat Chicken Wraps. Thirty-Eight People Are Sick, the Wraps Were Pulled Before the Link Was Confirmed, and Neither Agency Will Say Whose Wraps They Were.
By Bill Marler
As of October 7, 2026, FDA’s outbreak investigation table says the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak it has been working with USDA since September, FDA reference #1421 and FSIS 2026-04, has a vehicle: ready-to-eat multi-ingredient…
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Weekend Wrap-Up: FDA Closed the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak on Record and the Jalapeño Outbreak on the Same Friday, Found the Parasite in Taylor Farms’ Wastewater. The Files It Left Open Carry 675 Sick With No Food Named. And CDC Counts 76 in the Alfalfa Sprout Outbreak.
By Bill Marler
Saturday, October 3, 2026 This is the thirteenth Saturday column. Last Saturday’s edition ran under the headline A Raw Milk Cheese Labeled as Aged the Sixty Days the Rule Requires Made Thirteen…
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Christina Jewett, Alice Callahan and Caroline Hopkins Legaspi Read FDA’s Closure Correctly: The Parasite Was in Taylor Farms’ Own Wastewater and at Its Grower. Here Is What the Company Has Said, What It Has Not, and What I Told the Times Must Happen Before the 2027 Lettuce Is Planted.
By Bill Marler
On Friday, Christina Jewett, Alice Callahan and Caroline Hopkins Legaspi of the New York Times reported FDA’s finding in the terms it deserved. Inspectors found Cyclospora in water from a tank of outgoing wastewater…
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FDA Closed the Cyclospora Investigation. Taylor Farms Dropped the Grower and Left Its Website Dated August 27. Fifteen Congressional Letters Have No Published Answer, and the Only Hearing Room the Outbreak Ever Reached Was a Confirmation Hearing. Here Is Where the Count Stands.
By Bill Marler
Three questions keep arriving in my inbox: what did industry say, did Congress ever get an answer, and what are the final numbers. Here are the short answers, then the…
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FDA Closed Its Cyclospora Investigation Today and Said Where It Found the Parasite: Wastewater Leaving the Taylor Farms de Mexico Plant, and a Drainage Ditch at a Grower.
By Bill Marler
On October 2, 2026, FDA closed its investigation of the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico. The final count is 12,883 illnesses in 21 states, 570…
Food Poison Journal
FDA Opened a New Listeria Outbreak Investigation on September 30, 2026: 11 Sick, No Food Named, No States Listed. Here Is What Pregnant Women, Older Adults and Everyone Else Should Know.
By Bill Marler
As of September 30, 2026, FDA’s outbreak table carries a new Listeria monocytogenes investigation, reference #1415, with 11 people sick. The food has not been identified, no states, hospitalizations or deaths have…
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FDA, USDA and CDC Are Possibly Working the Same E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak. Twenty-Five People Are Sick, the Product Is Listed as Unknown, and the Shared Reference Number Is the Most Informative Thing on Any of the Three Pages.
By Bill Marler
Three federal websites are carrying the same outbreak this week, and none of them will tell you what food is in it. On September 23, FDA’s CORE investigations table added reference #1421: E.…
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Woods Hill Table Salmonella Outbreak: Ten Sick, Staff and Customers Among Them, as Concord Restaurant Closes. What Investigators Have Not Yet Said.
By Bill Marler
Woods Hill Table, the farm-to-table restaurant on Commonwealth Avenue in West Concord, Massachusetts, closed on September 16, 2026 while town and state health officials investigate a cluster of Salmonella infections. As…
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FDA Lists Sixteen Open Outbreak Investigations. Eight Name No Food, Two Are Still Marked Active After FDA Said It Was Done, and a Romaine E. coli File Closed Without Telling Anyone Who Grew the Lettuce
By Bill Marler
FDA's CORE outbreak investigations table is the closest thing the public has to a running list of the foodborne illness outbreaks the agency is working. When I checked it this morning, September…
Food Poison Journal
FDA Updates Outbreak Chart
By Patti Waller
For the outbreak of Cyclospora (ref #1390) linked to iceberg lettuce, FDA has initiated traceback and sampling. On July 16, 2026, FDA issued an outbreak advisory with consumer advice about shredded iceberg lettuce from Mexico sold at Taco Bell restaurant…