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Quick bites from around the food safety arena this week The scope of Cyclospora outbreaks nationwide continues to grow as more cases are confirmed. In relation to one outbreak, Taylor Farms has recalled all iceberg lettuce sold in the U.S. that was sourced […]

Maple Leaf Foods Inc. of Lisle, IL, is recalling 12,036 pounds of not ready-to-eat smoked bacon products that were imported from Canada without the benefit of import reinspection into the United States, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)

The CDC and FDA are tracking at least two major outbreaks of infections from the Cyclospora parasite with a combined number of confirmed patients approaching 7,000. The first outbreak, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is linked

A new outbreak of Salmonella infections is under investigation with eggs having been identified as the likely source of the pathogen. As of the evening of July 24 there are 98 patients in the outbreak that stretches across 17 states

Food Safety News will have a booth on the exhibit floor at the annual IAFP conference July 26-28, 2026, in New Orleans. If you are attending, please stop by to say hello. Our booth is #948. Bill Marler will be

In November 2013, after Cyclospora cayetanensis sickened hundreds of people in Iowa and Nebraska, FDA published an environmental assessment of the Taylor Farms de México processing plant at Doctor Mora, Guanajuato. The report closed with recommendations. The second told the firm to determine whether Cyclospora is

The health risk posed by meat processed by a company under investigation in the Netherlands is “negligible,” according to an assessment. The Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) asked the Office of Risk Assessment and Research (BuRO) to

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are

This is Part 2 of a 3-part series Researchers have detailed four Vibrio outbreaks in New Zealand that affected 117 people with 43 hospitalizations. In many places, including New Zealand, Vibrio parahaemolyticus acute gastroenteritis is a legally notifiable disease prompting public health

Midwest Poultry Services L.P. is recalling 1,589,577 dozen white shell eggs and brown cage free shell eggs produced in Texas because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis.  The eggs were produced and distributed from farms in