The good thing about both practicing food law for a long time and having a foodborne epidemiologist on staff is that we have the history of these outbreaks at our fingertips.
| Year | State/Multistate | Agent | Ill | Hospitalized | Died | Brand |
| 2021-2022 | Multistate | Listeria monocytogenes | 23 | 22 | 1 | Big Olaf Creamery |
| 2014 | Washington | Listeria monocytogenes | 2 | 2 | 0 | Snoqualmie Ice Cream |
| 2010-2015 | Multistate | Listeria monocytogenes | 10 | 10 | 3 | Blue Bell |
| 2008 | Vermont | E. coli O157:H7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | Homemade Ice Cream, unpasteurized milk |
| 2008 | Minnesota | Salmonella Heidelberg | 2 | 0 | 0 | Homemade ice cream |
| 2008 | California | E. coli O157:H7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | Consumed at a restaurant; brand or pasteurization unknown |
| 2007 | California | Norovirus | 17 | 0 | 0 | Ice cream with berries, berries were likely the contaminated ingredient |
| 2007 | Pennsylvania | Campylobacter | 3 | 0 | 0 | Homemade ice cream |
| 2007 | Minnesota | Hepatitis A | 15 | 6 | 0 | Ice cream or yogurt at a restaurant |
| 2007 | West Virginia | Salmonella Enteritidis | 8 | 2 | 0 | Homemade ice cream |
| 2006 | Belgium | E. coli O145 and E. coli 026 | 12 | 5 | 0 | Ice cream at a farm |
| 2006 | California | Salmonella | 6 | 0 | 0 | Homemade Ice Cream |
| 2005 | Multistate | Salmonella Typhimurium | 26 | 11 | 0 | Cold Stone Creamery (cake batter was the contaminated ingredient) |
| 1994 | Multistate | Salmonella Enteritidis | 12 | 0 | 0 | Schwan’s Ice Cream – the estimated # of ill cases is 224,000! |
| 1993 | Florida | Salmonella Enteritidis | 593 | Homemade Ice Cream |