An outbreak of Salmonella in Belgium traced to eggs has sickened more than 230 people. The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) confirmed to Food Safety News that 236 people are ill in the Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak. Patients range in age from less than 1 to 96 years old. They fell
Almost half, 41 percent, of the patients are children younger than 5 years old. Published: April 27, 2026, 12:06 am Backyard poultry flocks are infecting people with antibiotic resistant Salmonella, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of April 13, there have been 34 confirmed patients infected with the outbreak strain on
Published: March 06, 2026, 12:05 am According to a heavily redacted report just released, the FDA issued an import alert requiring border holds on an unnamed produce item linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak that stretched from April 2024 through at least June 2025. The Food and Drug Administration investigated the outbreak with the Centers
The international committee on food safety is reviewing infant formula safety. Published: December 29, 2025, 12:05 am Scientists are to conduct a risk assessment on certain pathogens in powdered infant formula following the global distribution of contaminated ByHeart products. At the Codex Committee on Food Hygiene meeting in December in Nashville, members asked the Joint
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For more than thirty years I have represented the families on the other end of a foodborne outbreak — the parents of children on dialysis with hemolytic uremic syndrome, the survivors of a contaminated hamburger or a bag of spinach, the people left planning funerals. I built a career holding companies accountable when the food
More people are sick in a multi-country Salmonella outbreak in Europe mainly affecting children and young adults. A total of 83 confirmed cases had symptom onset between December 2025 and mid-May 2026. Another 24 cases identified in 2026 have not yet been sequenced and may be part of the outbreak. At least 20 people have
For over thirty years, I have been beating the same drum, and the last few days were no exception (some argue a bit too loudly and self-serving). I have been posting about public health officials — and the FDA — sending out outbreak documents with the names of companies, growers, processors, and retailers blacked out