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As of August 20, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration count 10,930 illnesses in seventeen states, at least 454 hospitalizations and two deaths, with onsets running from June 14 through August 11, all of it tr

As of Saturday, August 22, 2026, four foodborne outbreaks are running at once and every one of them is still open. The Cyclospora outbreak linked to recalled Taylor Farms de Mexico iceberg lettuce stands at 10,930 illnesses in seventeen states, with a fif

Mia de Graaf published a piece at Business Insider this morning asking why the summer of 2026 has felt like one long food scare - Cyclospora in iceberg lettuce, Salmonella in jalapeños and shell eggs, E. coli in frozen blueberries, metal fragments in brea

As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak traced to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two dead, across seventeen states, with illness onsets running from

You can't insult your way out of losing the public's trust in its own food supply. Chipotle proved what earning it back actually costs - 3 years, $25 million, and zero insults. HHS hasn't even tried.

From Cyclospora in lettuce to E. coli in blueberries, food-safety scares are making headlines. Here's what to know about the recalls and outbreaks.

Saturday, August 22, 2026This is my seventh Weekend Wrap-Up. Last Saturday this column was called On Tuesday They Said the Food Supply Was the Safest in the World and the Outbreak Was Contained. By Thursday Night the Government's Own Outbreak Had Grown by

Lisa Fletcher, Andrea Nejman and Nathan Aaron published a piece yesterday on the two infant formula botulism outbreaks - the 48 babies across 17 states sickened by ByHeart Whole Nutrition, the four more sickened by Nara Organics - and on what the FDA knew

Fifty-five people in fifteen states are sick with Salmonella Agona or one of three strains of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli after eating alfalfa sprouts grown by Everything Sprouts, LLC of Minneapolis and sold under the Everything Sprouts and Calco brands

San Diego County raised the Ramona Salmonella count to twenty-three confirmed and suspected cases on the afternoon of Friday, August 21, 2026, and for the first time broke the outbreak into its two halves: eighteen illnesses tied to the house-made mayonna