FDA announced on September 30 a nationwide push to recruit new members for its advisory committees — more than 30 of them. Scientific experts, consumer representatives, the whole range. Here is the FDA news release.
Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas said the agency is “actively inviting people from across the country who are on
FDA updated its Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table on September 30. The joint E. coliO157:H7 file I wrote about last week and again on Tuesday, FDA reference #1421 and USDA-FSIS reference 2026-04, went from 25 sick to 38, and FDA has initiated sample collection. The product line still reads Not Yet Identified.
Earlier today I wrote about the Mezzetta peperoncini recall, prompted by a consumer’s video of what appears to be a dead mouse in her jar. It made me wonder how often an animal in food produces an official recall, one on an FDA, USDA or state record rather than only in a viral post.
A federal judge in Minnesota entered a consent decree on September 21, 2026 that bars Gold Star Distribution, Inc. and its owner, Bassam Abu Samrah, from receiving, holding or shipping any FDA-regulated product until FDA says in writing that the North Minneapolis warehouse is fit to use. FDA announced it September 23. Investigators who
Amanda Vicari, a food and agriculture policy communicator, published a piece on LinkedIn today — “MAHA Moved Food Politics to the Right. Now the Right Has to Decide What to Do With It.” — that is worth your time.
Her argument, briefly: in remarkably little time, MAHA took questions that used to belong to progressive
Frank Yiannas has been asking for a National Foodborne Outbreak Investigation Board, modeled on the National Transportation Safety Board, since he made the case in STAT last November. He came back to it in July in Food Safety News. I wrote about his idea in August, and again when De Ann Davis
This afternoon I fly from Seattle to Oslo. On Wednesday and Thursday, September 23 and 24, I give two talks at the Aquatiq Food Forum 2026 at the Clarion Hotel Oslo: “Why It Is a Bad Idea to Poison Your Customers” and “The Criminalization of Food Safety Failures.” I wrote about both talks last week
We need a lawyer who can find the defendant and a paralegal who can find the one page that matters.
Marler Clark has been suing the companies that poison people since 1993 — since a nine-year-old girl named Brianne Kiner nearly died from a hamburger. Sixteen years later it was Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance
Helena Bottemiller Evich’s Friday edition of Food Fix made an argument I have been making in pieces all summer, and she made it in one clean sweep: Congress has stopped doing its job. When she had me on her American Dish podcast on Sept. 2 to talk about the Cyclospora outbreak, I said much the
On September 15, the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA) posted a white paper marking twenty years since the 2006 spinach outbreak that led to its creation. It is called “Twenty Years of Progress,” and its executive summary ends on a line I agree with: food safety is never finished.
Four days earlier, CDC declared
