FDA and CDC updated the multistate Cyclospora outbreak today, August 27, 2026: 11,458 laboratory-confirmed illnesses, at least 495 hospitalizations and two deaths across twenty states, with illness onsets running from June 14 through August 15, all of it tied to processed iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico recalled on July 17. Georgia
Everything Sprouts, LLC of Minneapolis recalled alfalfa sprouts sold under the Calco and Everything Sprouts brands on August 22, 2026, after federal and state investigators tied the product to 55 illnesses in 15 states. Four people have been hospitalized and no one has died, according to CDC’s outbreak alert as last updated on August 24
As of Thursday, August 27, 2026, six reported foodborne illness outbreaks are running at the same time in the United States, and between them they account for 11,549 reported illnesses, at least 552 hospitalizations and two deaths. They are Cyclospora in iceberg lettuce, E. coli and Salmonella in alfalfa sprouts, Salmonella in jalapeño peppers, E.
FDA updated its Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table today, August 26, 2026, and the Active section now runs to nineteen files. Add up the case counts the agency publishes on each one and the table describes 12,201 illnesses, 595 hospitalizations where a number is given, and three deaths, two from Cyclospora in Michigan and
CDC closed its investigation of a multistate Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to requesón cheese made by Clover Hill Dairy, LLC of Mechanicsville, Maryland on August 26, 2026, with a final count of 15 people sick in four states — Illinois, Maryland, New York and Virginia — 14 hospitalized and one dead in Maryland. Illnesses began
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Marshall County Health Department are investigating Salmonella infections among people who attended Axtell Days, a four-day community festival held August 6 through 9, 2026, in Axtell, Kansas — a town of 399 people sitting between Marysville and Seneca in the northeast corner of the state. As
Everything Sprouts, LLC of Minneapolis recalled its alfalfa sprouts on August 22, 2026, in a notice FDA posted the same day. The recall covers five-ounce containers under the Everything Sprouts and Calco brands in lots 222, 223, 225, 226 and 230, distributed from May 27 through August 21 to wholesale distributors and grocery stores in
FDA’s own guidance to the sprout seed industry says the agency has observed 52 reported outbreaks of foodborne illness associated with contaminated sprouts in the United States between 1996 and 2020, together causing more than 2,700 illnesses. That is the floor, and it counts only one country. Pulling thirty years of the published record together
This chart stood at 31,521 on Wednesday. Tonight it stands at 31,972. West Virginia and Florida posted new numbers, Michigan reported on Thursday, and one row of my own chart turned out to be short by 31 people. The federal outbreak linked to recalled iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico stands at 10,930 illnesses
Zaragoza and Sanchez v. Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc. and Taylor Farms California, Inc., No. 1:26-cv-10148, filed today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, a state that now counts 1,437 illnesses of its own.
CHICAGO — August 21, 2026 — Alonso Zaragoza and Jadhira Sanchez, husband and wife, of Chicago
Twelve people infected with E. coli O145:H28 — eleven in Florida, one in Georgia, four hospitalized, no deaths — from frozen GreenWise organic blueberries and mixed berries sold at Publix and packed by Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A. of San Carlos, Chile. Illnesses began between May 11 and June 5. As of today, August