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Patient count for parasite outbreak linked to lettuce tops 10,000

The sick people are spread across 17 states

By Coral Beach

/ 21 Aug 2026

Patient count for parasite outbreak linked to lettuce tops 10,000

Sprouts outbreak grows to 55 patients in 15 states; company declines to issue recall

UPDATE: After an initial decline to issue a recall, the company announced a recall. See https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2026/08/sprout-company-recalls-products-linked-to-15-state-outbreak/ for details.

By Coral Beach

/ 21 Aug 2026

Scientists push for toxoplasmosis recognition

Scientists have called for toxoplasmosis to be listed as a neglected tropical disease by the World Health Organization (WHO). The Toxoplasma parasite can cause ocular toxoplasmosis, an eye infection that

By Joe Whitworth

/ 21 Aug 2026

Scientists push for toxoplasmosis recognition

IAEA project to look at edible insect safety

Another project is trying to improve the uptake and application of food irradiation

By Joe Whitworth

/ 21 Aug 2026

IAEA project to look at edible insect safety

Publisher’s Platform: There Is No Premarket Approval for Food, Says the Senior Food Adviser at HHS. Ten Days Earlier His Own Secretary Called the Exception to It a Loophole That Industry Hijacked.

A recall is not proof the system worked. It is a notice, sent after the fact, usually by the company that failed, telling you that something already went wrong and you may have eaten it. Calling this a good year for recalls is not a defense of the FDA. It is an insult to the people counted in it.

By Bill Marler

/ 20 Aug 2026

Publisher’s Platform: There Is No Premarket Approval for Food, Says the Senior Food Adviser at HHS. Ten Days Earlier His Own Secretary Called the Exception to It a Loophole That Industry Hijacked.

Sprouts tied to outbreak in Minnesota, Wisconsin and possibly other states

Consumers are being urged to not eat Calco or Everything Sprouts brand alfalfa sprouts.

By Coral Beach

/ 20 Aug 2026

Jalapeño Salmonella outbreak grows to 431 sick in 32 states; illnesses ran into August and the grower is still unnamed

CDC lists the investigation status as open and FDA lists it as ongoing. Case counts and recall lists in this report reflect the federal record as of Aug. 20, 2026.

By News Desk

/ 20 Aug 2026

Jalapeño Salmonella outbreak grows to 431 sick in 32 states; illnesses ran into August and the grower is still unnamed

Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

I have watched commissioners arrive since 1993, each with an agenda, and I have outlasted every one of them. That is not a boast. It is the problem, and it is the reason I am writing this the day the name came out rather than the day something goes wrong.

By Bill Marler

/ 20 Aug 2026

Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

Cheese and lettuce behind French Cryptosporidium outbreaks

By Joe Whitworth

/ 20 Aug 2026

Cheese and lettuce behind French Cryptosporidium outbreaks

Eggs blamed in Chinese Salmonella outbreak

By Joe Whitworth

/ 20 Aug 2026

Eggs blamed in Chinese Salmonella outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: California Lettuce Was Never Implicated. California Growers Plowed Under a Third of the Crop Anyway. Here Is What the Trade Associations, Washington and the Rest of Us Can Actually Do About It.

Fix the finding and one farm takes the loss instead of ninety percent of the lettuce. Do that and you put me out of the fresh fruit and vegetable business, and I would go gladly.

By Bill Marler

/ 19 Aug 2026

Publisher’s Platform: California Lettuce Was Never Implicated. California Growers Plowed Under a Third of the Crop Anyway. Here Is What the Trade Associations, Washington and the Rest of Us Can Actually Do About It.

Belgian Salmonella outbreak climbs to 300 cases

In the initial incident, Salmonella was found in a dust sample taken from a Laerco chicken coop and subsequent analysis revealed it was the same type detected in patients.

By Joe Whitworth

/ 19 Aug 2026

Belgian Salmonella outbreak climbs to 300 cases

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Patient count for parasite outbreak linked to lettuce tops 10,000

Sprouts outbreak grows to 55 patients in 15 states; company declines to issue recall

Scientists push for toxoplasmosis recognition

IAEA project to look at edible insect safety

Publisher’s Platform: There Is No Premarket Approval for Food, Says the Senior Food Adviser at HHS. Ten Days Earlier His Own Secretary Called the Exception to It a Loophole That Industry Hijacked.

Sprouts tied to outbreak in Minnesota, Wisconsin and possibly other states

Jalapeño Salmonella outbreak grows to 431 sick in 32 states; illnesses ran into August and the grower is still unnamed

Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

Cheese and lettuce behind French Cryptosporidium outbreaks

Eggs blamed in Chinese Salmonella outbreak

Publisher’s Platform: California Lettuce Was Never Implicated. California Growers Plowed Under a Third of the Crop Anyway. Here Is What the Trade Associations, Washington and the Rest of Us Can Actually Do About It.

Belgian Salmonella outbreak climbs to 300 cases