FDA posted a warning letter on September 22, 2026 telling Viva Raw LLC of Charlotte, North Carolina that raw pet food it sold in the summer of 2025 was adulterated: Salmonella Enteritidis in Viva Raw Pure Chicken Pet Food Mixer and Viva Raw Chunked Chicken Dog Food, and Listeria monocytogenes in Viva Raw Ground Turkey…

The frozen blueberry E. coli O145:H28 outbreak is over. On September 21, 2026, CDC closed it at 17 sick in Florida and Georgia, 6 hospitalized and no deaths, all tied to frozen organic blueberries packed by Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile, and sold as Publix GreenWise blueberries and mixed berries…

As of September 17, CDC counts 37 people with hepatitis A in four states linked to imported frozen blood clams, 30 of them hospitalized, none dead, with illness onsets running from July 30, 2025 to June 23, 2026. FDA’s safety alert for the same clams — the page a restaurant, an inspector or a home…

On Tuesday, September 22, 2026, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced a Class I recall of approximately 167,639 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat products from Star Meat Delivery Inc. of North Carolina, produced without federal inspection and stamped with a counterfeit USDA mark of inspection reading EST. 1363. The meat went to…

FDA’s Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation (CORE) Network has posted Executive Incident Summary abstracts for five 2026 outbreak investigations: Salmonella in Mogo moringa capsules (ref #1377) and Rosabella moringa capsules (#1365), E. coli O157:H7 in Raw Farm raw cheddar and raw milk (#1369), Salmonella Newport in Guatemalan cantaloupe (#1366), and Listeria monocytogenes in Clover Hill…

Vermont officials announced a recall of shell eggs from Leaping Bear Farm of Reading on September 11, 2026, after finding Salmonella Enteritidis in both the eggs and environmental samples at the farm. The Vermont Department of Health has linked fourteen Vermont illnesses to the strain, and other states have genetically linked cases. The recall covers…

Connecticut is telling consumers to throw away every bottle of Phire in the Hole hot sauce they own. On September 11, 2026, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection issued a consumer alert and a cease-and-desist order to Phire in the Hole of Monroe, Connecticut, after finding that the company’s hot sauces were made without a…

CDC updated its Cyclospora case-data page today, September 8, 2026. It now reports 19,595 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis acquired in this country since May 1, 1,043 hospitalizations, two deaths and cases in forty-nine states plus the District of Columbia, against 1,180 for the whole of last season. The federal outbreak linked to Taylor Farms de…

On September 6, 2026, Made Fresh Salads Inc. of Bay Shore, New York recalled all of its ready-to-eat deli-style salads and all of its cream cheese because of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Not one lot. Not one flavor. Everything the plant makes.

The products went to Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and the rest of New…