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Hat Tip to Phyllis Entis: The Unnamed Seed Supplier in the E. coli and Salmonella Alfalfa Sprout Outbreak Is International Sprout Holdings of Cookeville, Tennessee. The Recalled Lot, 43,799 Pounds of Seed, Went to Sixteen States, Puerto Rico and Four Countries. The Second Sprout Grower Is Still Unnamed.
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (230+ words) That is roughly 876 bags of seed, shipped to wholesale customers in California, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah, plus Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, Tahiti and Venezuela. None of…...
Twenty-Seven Years Ago Today: E. coli O157:H7 in Well No. 6 at the Washington County Fair
19+ hour, 19+ min ago (363+ words) Thanks to Cara Lynn Shultz at People for going back to this one. She picked the right date. September 9 is not the day people got sick at the Washington County Fair — that had already happened. It is the day the…...
Twenty-Two People in Four States Are Sick with Salmonella from Evergreen Fresh Sprouts Broccoli Sprouts. The Sample That Produced the Recall Came Out of a Patient’s Refrigerator in Montana.
21+ hour, 36+ min ago (261+ words) Six days ago, the public number was sixteen, in three states, with no recall. All three of those things have changed. The count moved from sixteen to twenty-two, and the last onset moved eight days later. A state lab, an…...
Abbott Is Selling Sterility as a Feature. In Liquid Formula It Is Already the Rule.
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (313+ words) On August 31, 2026, Abbott announced Similac 360 Total Care Made With Whole Milk, the first and only commercially sterile, ready-to-feed liquid infant formula made with whole milk sold in the United States. Whole milk for a fat blend closer to breast milk,…...
Four Weeks of the Cyclospora Record: The Company Answered on Its Own FAQ Page, FDA Issued a Guidance Nobody Has to Follow, CDC Stopped Updating Weekly, and Thirteen Congressional Letters Sit Unanswered With No Hearing Scheduled
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (609+ words) The company answered. It answered on its own website. Read that against the mail. Representative Robert Garcia asked the company for every communication with the White House. Senator Richard Blumenthal asked FDA and the company for all communications with the…...
660 Million Pounds of Trimmings — The Part of Eric Schlosser's Op-Ed I Would Underline
1+ day, 19+ hour ago (609+ words) Five days ago, I wrote about his piece in The Atlantic and turned it into a list of three fights worth having right now — Cyclospora and the traceability rule, botulism testing in infant formula, and Salmonella in chicken. Here is…...
FDA Foreign Food Inspections Are Down Nearly 35 Percent Since 2019. Congress Should Hold a Hearing on What Real Inspections Would Cost, and Invite a Consumer to the Witness Table.
2+ day, 3+ hour ago (200+ words) This is not new, and I have written about it before The arithmetic, which is what a hearing is for What I would not pretend at that hearing One more thing, and it is the part that always gets left…...
FDA Has Two Recall Pages. One Is a Bulletin Board, One Is the Record, and Neither Gives You a Number You Can Trust.
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (566+ words) Every so often someone asks me why a recall they saw all over the news barely exists in FDA’s files, or why a recall they stumbled on in an FDA database never made the news at all. The answer is…...
The Safest Food Supply in the World? Ten Things That Would Actually Take CDC’s Number Down
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (884+ words) I have been writing this blog since 2004. Something north of five thousand posts. Nearly all of them are about somebody getting sick from something they ate, and too many are about somebody dying from it. Four files, one holiday Monday....
Ten Things That Would Have Stopped the 2026??Cyclospora??Outbreak or Made It Smaller.??And, Bruce Taylor and I Agree on Something
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (502+ words) Every one of them is a person who ate something. The open question is what. Here are ten things that would have prevented this outbreak or made it smaller. Not one of them requires an invention. They run roughly in…...
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