List of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States

• The Swill milk scandal leads to the deaths of 8,000 babies in one year alone.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

• 35 people died in 1919 from botulism from improperly canned black olives produced in California.{{cite book |author1=Connell, Joseph H. |editor1-last=Sibbett |editor1-first=Steven |editor2-last=Ferguson |editor2-first=Louise |title=Olive Production Manual |date=2005 |publisher=University of California |isbn=978-1-879906-14-3 |page=5 |edition=2nd}}

• Two women died in 1963 from botulism from canned tuna fish from the Washington Packing Corporation.{{cite news |title=Deaths Spur Tuna Hunt In Detroit Area |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=VJBOAAAAIBAJ&pg=7129,4239012&dq=death+botulism&hl=en |quote=Dr. Robert Solomon, who treated the second victim, said he and a pathologist attributed her death to "botulism" and that "everything points to type the ... |newspaper=Toledo Blade |date=March 20, 1963 |access-date=2011-10-10 }}

• On July 2, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a public warning after learning that a Westchester County, New York, man had died and his wife had become seriously ill from botulism after eating a portion of a can of Bon Vivant vichyssoise soup.{{cite news |title=In a Beef Packager's Demise, a Whiff of Vichyssoise. |url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/in-a-beef-packagers-demise-a-whiff-of-vichyssoise/#more-845 |work=The New York Times |date=October 5, 2007 |access-date=October 9, 2007 | first=Patrick J. | last=Lyons}}{{cite news |title=Botulism Death in Westchester Brings Hunt for Soup |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/02/archives/botulism-death-in-westchester-brings-hunt-for-soup.html |quote=The death of a Westchester County man Wednesday night, apparently from botulism, and the serious illness of his wife has precipitated a nationwide search for 6,444 cans of vichyssoise marketed under the Bon Vivant label. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 2, 1971}} 6,444 vichyssoise soup cans were recalled, including all Bon Vivant soups – more than a million cans in all. On July 7, the FDA ordered the shutdown of the company's Newark, New Jersey, plant. Out of 324 soup cans, five were found to be contaminated with botulinum toxin, all in the initial batch of vichyssoise that was recalled. The company filed for bankruptcy within a month of the start of the recall, and changed its business name to Moore & Co.{{cite news|title=An Examination of FDA's Recall Authority |url=http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/729/Curatolo05.html|publisher=Harvard Law School |access-date=September 25, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016235604/http://leda.law.harvard.edu/leda/data/729/Curatolo05.html |archive-date=October 16, 2007 }} The FDA resolved to destroy the company's stock of canned soup, but the company fought the proposed action in court until 1974.{{cite news |title=Bon Vivant yields on Dumping Soup. Bankrupt Canner Cites Cost of Long U.S. Suit and Age of Stocks Seized in 1971. Cans to Be Buried. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/04/archives/bon-vivant-yields-on-dumping-soup-bankrupt-canner-cites-cost-of.html |work=New York Times |date=June 14, 1974 |access-date=October 9, 2007 | first=Joan |last=Cook}}

• Salmonella in unpasteurized apple cider caused 200 illnesses in New Jersey.{{cite web |url=http://hortweb.cas.psu.edu/courses/hort432/lecturenotes/cider.html |title=Fresh apple cider in the United States is amber golden, opaque, and entirely nonalcoholic |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010523032340/http://hortweb.cas.psu.edu/courses/hort432/lecturenotes/cider.html |archive-date=May 23, 2001}}

• Botulism in peppers served at the Trini and Carmen restaurant in Pontiac, Michigan, caused the largest outbreak of botulism poisonings in the United States up to that time. The peppers were canned at home by a former employee.{{cite web |url=https://panewsarchive.psu.edu/lccn/sn85054904/1977-04-07/ed-1/seq-8/ |title=5 new botulism cases appear in worst outbreak |via=Penn State University Libraries |agency=United Press International |work=The Daily Collegian |page=8 |date=April 7, 1977 |access-date=May 2, 2018 }} Fifty-nine people were sickened.{{cite journal |journal=Am. J. Epidemiol. |author1=Kristine L. MacDonald |author2=Mitchell L. Cohen |author3=Paul A. Blake |title=The Changing Epidemiology of Adult Botulism in the United States |year=1986 |volume=124 |issue=5 |pages=794–799 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a114455 |pmid=3766512 }}

• Botulism in Clovis, New Mexico. 34 people who ate at a restaurant, Colonial Park Country Club, developed clinical botulism in the second-largest outbreak in United States history. The outbreak was traced to either potato salad or a commercially prepared three-bean salad served to a group attending a banquet. Despite a thorough search of the local landfill, the discarded three-bean salad containers were never located, making it impossible to test them to confirm the source of contamination. All patients were hospitalized and 33 received trivalent botulinal antitoxin. There were two deaths.{{cite news |url=http://www.cnjonline.com/articles/clovis_30598___article.html/tragedy_haven.html |title=Memory from 1978 Clovis tragedy endures |date=October 18, 2008 |last=McAlavy |first=Don |work=Clovis News Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613215831/http://www.cnjonline.com/articles/clovis-30598-tragedy-haven.html |archive-date=June 13, 2011 }}{{cite journal |title=Patient recovery from type A botulism: morbidity assessment following a large outbreak |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=March 1981 |volume=71 |issue=3 |pages=266–269 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.71.3.266 |pmid=7468858 |vauthors=Mann JM, Martin S, Hoffman R, Marrazzo S |pmc=1619789 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.botulismblog.com/botulism-information/recalling-the-big-botulism-outbreak-of-1978-in-clovis-new-mexico/ |title=Recalling The Big Botulism Outbreak of 1978 in Clovis, New Mexico |work=BotulismBlog.com |date=20 October 2008 }}Botulism Outbreak, Clovis, New Mexico, April 8–18, 1978 New Mexico. Health Services Division, 78 pp

• Botulism (Type A Clostridium botulinum) in Peoria, Illinois. 28 persons were hospitalized, and 20 patients were treated with an antitoxin. 12 patients required ventilatory support and 1 death resulted. The source was sautéed onions made from fresh raw onions served on a patty melt sandwich. The sandwiches were served at the Skewer Inn Restaurant located inside Northwoods Mall.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/20/us/6-more-in-illinois-hospitals-as-possible-botulism-cases.html |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |title=6 More in Illinois Hospitals As Possible Botulism Cases |date=October 20, 1983 }}

• Hamburger Thyrotoxicosis (alimentary thyrotoxicosis) outbreak among residents of southwestern Minnesota and adjacent areas of South Dakota and Iowa.Hedberg CW, et al.: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3561455 An outbreak of thyrotoxicosis caused by the consumption of bovine thyroid in ground beef.] N Engl J Med 1987;316:993-8.Kinney, Janet S., et al.: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3257352 Community outbreak of thyrotoxicosis: Epidemiology, immunogenetic characteristics, and long-term outcome.] The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 84 (January 1988), Issue 1, Pages 10–18.[http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/endocrine/thyroid/hamburgers.html Hamburger Thyrotoxicosis]

• A listeria outbreak in California stemmed from Mexican style soft cheese made by Jalisco. There were 52 confirmed deaths, including 19 stillbirths and 10 infant deaths.{{cite news |url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n6_v22/ai_6589512 |work=FDA Consumer |title=Invisible villains; tiny microbes are biggest food hazard |first=Marian |last=Segal|year=1988 }} At the time, it was the deadliest foodborne illness outbreak in the United States, measured by the number of deaths, since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had begun tracking outbreaks in the 1970s.{{cite news |author=William Neuman |title=Deaths From Cantaloupe Listeria Rise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/business/deaths-from-cantaloupe-listeria-rises.html?src=me&ref=general |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=September 29, 2011 |author-link= William Neuman (reporter)}} Alta Dena supplied the raw milk to Jalisco to make the cheese.{{cite news |title=Witnesses Clash Over Blame For Deaths From Bad Cheese |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/12/us/witnesses-clash-over-blame-for-deaths-from-bad-cheese.html |agency=Associated Press |work=The New York Times |date=July 12, 1989 |access-date=October 4, 2011 }} Jalisco had a non-licensed technician perform the pasteurization, though pasteurized milk might have been diluted with non-pasteurized milk by the technician.{{cite news |author=Lawrence Altman |title=Cheese Microbe Underscores Mystery |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/02/science/the-doctor-s-world-cheese-microbe-underscores-mystery.html?scp=1&sq=Listeriosis%20Mexican-Style%20Cheese&st=cse |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 2, 1985 |access-date=2011-10-10 |author-link=Lawrence Altman }} On July 15, 1989, Alta Dena was absolved of any blame.{{cite news |title=California Dairy Is Absolved Of Blame in Poisonings of 48 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/15/us/california-dairy-is-absolved-of-blame-in-poisonings-of-48.html?src=pm |agency=Reuters |work=The New York Times |date=July 15, 1989 |access-date=2011-10-04 }}
• As there was Salmonella typhimurium in milk from the Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park, Illinois, a salmonellosis outbreak occurred. At least 16,284 people were infected, all but 1,059 of them from Illinois. The others were in Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Two people died and the infection was a contributing factor in the deaths of "four, possibly five, others".{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_v20/ai_4119044 |work=FDA Consumer |title=Of microbes and milk; probing America's worst salmonella outbreak |author=Chris Lecos |date=February 1, 1986 |author-link=Chris Lecos }}{{cite news |title=Salmonella Outbreak is Traced |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/04/17/garden/salmonella-outbreak-is-traced.html|agency=United Press International |work=The New York Times |date=April 17, 1985 |access-date=September 29, 2011 }} It was the worst outbreak of salmonellosis food poisoning in United States history at the time.

• Botulism in whitefish in New Jersey. Four members of a Fort Lee family were stricken with botulism after eating fish bought in Jersey City.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/07/nyregion/botulism-reported-in-fort-lee-family.html |work=The New York Times |title=Botulism Reported In Fort Lee Family |agency=Associated Press |date=May 7, 1992 |access-date=May 8, 2010 }}

• E. coli O157:H7 outbreak caused by undercooked hamburgers from Jack in the Box. Four children died and nearly 700 others became sick in the Seattle area and other parts of the Pacific Northwest. The outrage resulting from the deaths placed strong political pressure on Washington and resulted in new regulations from the USDA to reform century-old practices in the meat industry. The new regulations, titled Pathogen Reduction and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point Systems Final Rule, required a mandatory HACCP inspection system and microbial testing in meat processing plants.{{cite web |url=http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/background/bkbeyond.htm |title=The New Regulatory Approach for Meat and Poultry Safety |publisher=Food Safety and Inspection Service, United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=February 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017171832/http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/background/bkbeyond.htm |archive-date=October 17, 2010 |url-status=dead }}

• Botulism in El Paso, Texas. A Greek restaurant made dips from improperly stored foil-wrapped baked potatoes. Thirty persons affected; 4 required mechanical ventilation.{{cite journal | vauthors = Angulo FJ, Getz J, Taylor JP, Hendricks KA, Hatheway CL, Barth SS, Solomon HM, Larson AE, Johnson EA, Nickey LN, Ries AA | display-authors = 6 | title = A large outbreak of botulism: the hazardous baked potato | journal = The Journal of Infectious Diseases | volume = 178 | issue = 1 | pages = 172–7 | date = July 1998 | pmid = 9652437 | doi = 10.1086/515615 | doi-access = free }}
• Salmonella in ice cream from Schwan's Sales Enterprises of Marshall, Minnesota. Based upon the volume of ice cream produced, the number of consumers, and the attack rate amongst consumers, it is estimated that 29,100 people in Minnesota suffered from S. enteritidis gastroenteritis after eating Schwan's ice cream; and that since most of the ice cream produced during the outbreak was distributed outside Minnesota, as many as 224,000 people across the United States became sick.{{Cite journal |last1=Hennessy |first1=Thomas W. |last2=Hedberg |first2=Craig W. |last3=Slutsker |first3=Laurence |last4=White |first4=Karen E. |last5=Besser-Wiek |first5=John M. |last6=Moen |first6=Michael E. |last7=Feldman |first7=John |last8=Coleman |first8=William W .|last9=Edmonson |first9=Larry M. |date=May 16, 1996 |title=A National Outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis Infections from Ice Cream |journal=New England Journal of Medicine |volume=334 |issue=20 |pages=1281–1286 |doi=10.1056/NEJM199605163342001 |pmid=8609944 |doi-access=free }} The contamination occurred when raw, unpasteurized eggs were hauled in a tanker truck that later carried pasteurized ice cream to the Schwan's plant. The ice cream premix was not re-pasteurized after delivery to the plant.{{cite news |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n5_v29/ai_17067476 |work=FDA Consumer |title=Ice cream firm linked to salmonella outbreak |first=John |last=Henkel |year=1995 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090802235649/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n5_v29/ai_17067476/ |archive-date=August 2, 2009 }}{{cite news |title=Ice Cream Linked to Salmonella in 15 States |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/us/ice-cream-linked-to-salmonella-in-15-states.html |quote=The manufacturer, Schwan's Sales Enterprises in Marshall, Minn., recalled its ice cream last week after the first reports of food poisoning. Investigators have found salmonella bacteria in samples of Schwan's ice cream eaten by people who became ill. ... |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 16, 1994 |access-date=2011-09-30 }}

• E. coli O157:H7 in unpasteurized apple juice from Odwalla. The company was using blemished fruit and ignored warnings from in-house safety experts and specialized in selling unpasteurized juices for their supposed health benefits. 70 people in several U.S. states were stricken, mostly in the West, and in Canada. The outbreak caused one death, a 16-month-old girl from Colorado.{{cite news |title=Accord Is Reached in Food-Poisoning Case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/27/us/accord-is-reached-in-food-poisoning-case.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 27, 1998 |access-date=2011-09-30 |first=Pam |last=Belluck}}{{cite news

|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/us/deadly-bacteria-a-new-threat-to-fruit-and-produce-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm |title=Deadly Bacteria a New Threat To Fruit and Produce in U.S. |access-date=August 11, 2008 |author1=Christopher Drew |author2-link=Pam Belluck |author2=Pam Belluck |date=January 4, 1988 |work=The New York Times|author1-link=Christopher Drew (reporter) }}

• E. coli O157:H7 in lettuce sickened at least 61 people in Illinois, Connecticut and New York in May and June 1996.

• Hepatitis A on frozen strawberries from Andrew & Williamson Sales Co. of San Diego, California. The strawberries were grown in Baja California, Mexico and processed by A&W. Thousands of students from Arizona, California, Georgia, Iowa, Michigan, and Tennessee may have been exposed to the virus from eating strawberries in school lunches. Over 2.6 million pounds of strawberries were recalled.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9704/03/hepatitis.update.late/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828101617/http://cnn.com/HEALTH/9704/03/hepatitis.update.late/index.html |url-status=dead |title=Thousands get hepatitis A inoculation |publisher=CNN |date=April 3, 1997 |archive-date=August 28, 2008 }}

• A listeriosis outbreak, which was the third deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in the United States since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention started tracking in the 1970s, resulted in 14 deaths and 4 miscarriages or stillbirths. The listeria outbreak was in hot dogs and cold cuts from Sara Lee Corporation.{{cite news |title=Listeria Fear Forces Recall of Hot Dogs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/03/26/us/listeria-fear-forces-recall-of-hot-dogs.html |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Bloomberg News |date=March 26, 2000 |access-date=2011-09-30 }} Some sources put the death toll as high as 21.{{cite news |author=William Neuman |title=Deaths From Cantaloupe Listeria Rise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/business/deaths-from-cantaloupe-listeria-rises.html?src=me&ref=general|newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=2011-09-29 |author-link=William Neuman (reporter) }}

• A Sun Orchard salmonellosis outbreak occurred when more than 400 people became infected with Salmonella Muenchen as a result of drinking contaminated unpasteurized orange juice.{{sfn|Drexler|2009|p=75}}{{cite journal |title=Outbreak of Salmonella Serotype Muenchen Infections Associated with Unpasteurized Orange Juice—United States and Canada, June 1999 |journal=Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |date=July 16, 1999 |volume=48 |issue=27 |pages=582–585 |pmid=10428096 |author1=Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) }} The juice was produced by Sun Orchard, based in Tempe, Arizona, and sold to restaurants, hotels, retail and catering outlets in 15 US states and 2 Canadian provinces under a variety of different brand names, including Sun Orchard, Earls, Joey Tomato's, Trader Joe's, Markon, Aloha, Sysco, and Voila!{{sfn|Bell|Kyriakides|2008|p=45}}{{cite news |title=DNA links salmonella outbreak to Sun Orchard orange juice |date=June 28, 1999 |work=Arizona Daily Sun |location=Flagstaff |url=http://azdailysun.com/dna-links-salmonella-outbreak-to-sun-orchard-orange-juice/article_40bd9c1d-2005-51ad-a2c9-edf3b9741f63.html |access-date=June 4, 2015 }} The outbreak resulted in 1 fatality, and is the largest outbreak of salmonellosis associated with unpasteurized juice.{{cite news |title=Food safety serious U.S. health problem |work=Charleston Gazette-Mail |location=Charleston |date=March 18, 2001 |first=Greg |last=Winter |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18993107.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116034221/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-18993107.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 16, 2018 |access-date=June 5, 2015 }}{{sfn|Foster|Vasavada|2003|page=108}}
• E. coli O157:H7 was found in the drinking water at the Washington County Fair in Easton, New York. Over 700 people were affected and 2 people died.{{cite web |title=Health Commissioner Releases E. coli Outbreak Report |url=https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2000/ecoli.htm |publisher=New York State Department of Health |access-date=7 May 2014 |archive-date=8 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508030117/https://www.health.ny.gov/press/releases/2000/ecoli.htm |url-status=dead }}

• Salmonella in bean sprouts from Pacific Coast Sprout Farms. They bought dry seeds in China and Australia and when germinated, the sprouts caused an outbreak from Oregon to Massachusetts. At least 67 people became ill, and 17 were hospitalized.{{cite web |url=http://www.sproutnet.com/Research/salmonellosis_outbreak_associate.htm |title=Salmonellosis Outbreak Associated with Raw Mung Bean Sprouts SproutNet |work=Sproutnet.com |access-date=September 5, 2010 }}
• A young girl died and 65 other people were sickened in an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The source of the outbreak was two Sizzler restaurants that apparently allowed raw meat to come into contact with other food items. The infected meat was traced to the Excel meat packing plant in Colorado.{{cite web |url=http://www.about-ecoli.com/ecoli_outbreaks/news/colorado-plant-linked-to-e-coli-outbreak-story/ |title=E. coli Food Poisoning |work=about-ecoli.com }}{{cite web |url=http://www2.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug00/ecoli26082500a.asp?format=print |title=Beef grinder close to salad prep area, official says |author=Tom Held |work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |date=August 25, 2000 |access-date=March 6, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060309183627/http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/aug00/ecoli26082500a.asp?format=print |archive-date=March 9, 2006 |url-status=dead }}
• There were 19 confirmed cases, 19 likely cases, and 49 suspected cases of E. coli O157:H7 in Oregon in August. The cases were linked to a Wendy's restaurant, and although beef was the suspected vector of transmission, such a link was not conclusively shown.{{cite web |url=http://www.about-ecoli.com/ecoli_outbreaks/news/meat-thought-to-be-e-coli-culprit/ |title=E. coli Food Poisoning |work=about-ecoli.com }}

• E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef from ConAgra. 19 people became ill in California, Colorado, Michigan, South Dakota, Washington and Wyoming as a result of eating tainted hamburger from a ConAgra plant in Greeley, Colorado. The company recalled over 19 million pounds of ground beef it had manufactured, in the third largest recall in history.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/20/us/19-million-pounds-of-meat-recalled-after-19-fall-ill.html |work=The New York Times |title=19 Million Pounds Of Meat Recalled After 19 Fall Ill |first=Elizabeth |last=Becker |date=July 20, 2002 |access-date=May 8, 2010 }}
• Listeria in processed turkey from Pilgrim's Pride. The company recalled over 27 million pounds of poultry products it had manufactured, in the largest recall in history. The outbreak killed 7 people, sickened 46, and caused 3 miscarriages.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/30/dining/eating-well-listeria-thrives-in-a-political-hotbed.html |work=The New York Times |title=Eating Well; Listeria Thrives in a Political Hotbed |first=Marian |last=Burros |date=October 30, 2002 |access-date=May 8, 2010}}{{cite web |url=http://outbreakdatabase.com/details/pilgrims-pride-foods-turkey-deli-meat-2002/?organism=Listeria+monocytogenes |title=Pilgrim's Pride Foods Turkey Deli Meat 2002 |work=Marler Clark |access-date=May 2, 2018 |archive-date=May 2, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502213515/http://outbreakdatabase.com/details/pilgrims-pride-foods-turkey-deli-meat-2002/?organism=Listeria+monocytogenes |url-status=dead }}
• Botulism sickened 8 people in Western Alaska as a result of eating a beached beluga whale.{{cite journal |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5202a2.htm |title=Outbreak of Botulism Type E Associated with Eating a Beached Whale - Western Alaska, July 2002 |journal=Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |date=January 17, 2003 |volume=52 |issue=2 |pages=24–26 |pmid=12608715 |author1=Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) }}
• Fifty-seven people in 7 states became ill in August and September after consuming meat contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The tainted meat originated at the meat packing plant Emmpak Foods. Emmpak recalled 2.8 million pounds of ground beef in the aftermath of the outbreak.{{cite web |url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=86806 |title=Woman hospitalized with E. coli sues Emmpak |work=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |date=October 11, 2002 |last=Johnson |first=Annysa |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070425203031/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=86806 |archive-date=April 25, 2007 }}

• A hepatitis A outbreak from a Chi's-Chi's restaurant was one of the most widespread hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States, afflicting at least 640 people, killing four people in north-eastern Ohio and south-western Pennsylvania in late 2003. The outbreak was blamed on tainted green onions at a Chi-Chi's restaurant in Monaca, Pennsylvania.{{cite journal |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwR/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5247a5.htm |title=Hepatitis A Outbreak Associated with Green Onions at a Restaurant – Monaca, Pennsylvania, 2003 |access-date=October 8, 2011 |date=November 28, 2003|journal=Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |volume=52 |issue=47 |pages=1155–1157 |pmid=14647018 |author1=Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) }}

• E. coli O157:H7 from Taco Bell in South Plainfield, New Jersey and Long Island. 39 people in central New Jersey and on Long Island were sickened and suffered from hemolytic uremic syndrome.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/nyregion/05colicnd.html |title=E. coli Sickens More Than 35 in N.J. and L.I. |work=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=December 4, 2006 }} Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at first believed the E. coli O157:H7 to be in the green onions. The FDA on December 13, 2006, said it could not confirm that scallions were the cause of the problem, as previously suspected, and that it was not ruling out any food as a possible culprit. It was later suspected that infected lettuce was the cause.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121300593_pf.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=Lettuce Suspected in Taco Bell E. coli |first=Andrew |last=Bridges |access-date=May 8, 2010 }}
• 2006 North American E. coli outbreak. E. coli O157:H7 in bagged organic spinach packaged by Natural Selection Foods and most likely supplied by Earthbound Farm in San Juan Bautista. 3 dead, and 198 people reported sickened by the outbreak across 25 U.S. states,{{cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/foodborne/ecolispinach/current.htm |title=Update on Multi-State Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections From Fresh Spinach |date=September 23, 2006 |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=September 24, 2006}} and 1 person reported sickened by the outbreak in Ontario.{{cite news |url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/first-case-of-contaminated-spinach-recorded-in-canada-1.570645 |publisher=CBC News |title=First case of contaminated spinach recorded in Canada |date=September 25, 2006 }}

• On December 27, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health warned not to drink milk or milk-related products from Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury, MA due to a listeria bacteria contamination that resulted in two deaths.{{cite news |title=Two dead from Whittier Farms milk contamination. |url=http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/x1151534597 |quote=The Department of Public Health (DPH) has issued a warning to consumers not to drink any milk products from Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury because of listeria bacteria contamination, which has contributed to the death of two people |work=Metro West Daily News |date=December 27, 2007 |access-date=2007-12-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231152334/http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/x1151534597 |archive-date=2007-12-31 |url-status=dead }}
• On October 11, food manufacturer ConAgra asked stores to pull its Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies due to 152 cases of salmonella poisoning in 31 states being linked to the consumption of ConAgra pot pies, with 20 people hospitalized. By October 12, a full recall was announced, affecting all varieties of frozen pot pies sold under the brands Banquet, Albertson's, Food Lion, Great Value, Hill Country Fare, Kirkwood, Kroger, Meijer, and Western Family. The recalled pot pies included all varieties in {{convert|7|oz |adj=on |abbr=on}} single-serving packages bearing the number P-9 or "Est. 1059" printed on the side of the package.{{cite web |url=http://www.manufacturing.net/news/2007/10/conagra-recalling-all-pot-pies |author=Anna Jo Bratton |title=ConAgra Foods recalls all pot pies |access-date=October 13, 2007 |date=October 12, 2007 }}
• E. coli O157:H7 in ground beef from the Topps Meat Company in Elizabeth, New Jersey. {{As of|2007|post=,}} it is the second-largest beef recall in United States history.{{cite news |author=Patrick Lyons |title=In a Beef Packager's Demise, a Whiff of Vichyssoise |url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/in-a-beef-packagers-demise-a-whiff-of-vichyssoise/#more-845 |quote=|newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 5, 2007 |access-date=October 9, 2007 }}{{cite news |title=Topps Meat Co. folds after beef recall. |url=http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/10/topps_meat_co_folds_after_mass.html |quote=Topps Meat Co. of Elizabeth, which is involved in the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history, said today it is going out of business after more than six decades |work=The New York Times |date=October 5, 2007 |access-date=September 25, 2007 }}
• Botulism from cans of Castleberry's, Austex and Kroger brands of chili sauce. In total, over 25 different brands of a variety of products were recalled by Castleberry's Food Company.{{cite web |url=http://www.castleberrys.com/news_pressRelease0801.asp |title=Castleberry's Updates Status of National Canned Food Recall |date=August 1, 2007 |access-date=January 26, 2017 |type=Press release |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325122818/http://www.castleberrys.com/news_pressRelease0801.asp |archive-date=March 25, 2010 }} The best by dates for the affected products range from April 30, 2009, through May 22, 2009. The contamination by the toxin is extremely rare for commercially canned products. CDC medical epidemiologist Dr. Michael Lynch said the last such U.S. case dates to the 1970s. The roughly 25 cases reported each year were mainly from home canned foods.{{cite journal |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm56d730a1.htm |title=Botulism Associated with Commercially Canned Chili Sauce --- Texas and Indiana, July 2007 |date=July 30, 2007 |journal=Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention }}
• Salmonella from Peter Pan and Great Value Peanut Butter (both manufactured by ConAgra) in 44 states. By March 7, 2007, the outbreak had grown to 425 cases in 44 states since its start in August 2006. The CDC said it is believed to be the first salmonella outbreak associated with peanut butter in United States history.{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna17155561 |title=Salmonella outbreak still a sticky mystery |publisher=MSNBC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070215193802/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17155561/ |date=February 15, 2007 |archive-date=February 15, 2007 |agency=Associated Press |url-status=live }}
• In April and May, 14 people in 11 states were sickened after eating E. coli O157:H7-tainted beef packed by United Food Group. The meat packing company ultimately recalled 5.7 million pounds of potentially contaminated meat.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/us/10recall.html |title=Supplier Expands Beef Recall Over Concerns of E. coli Contamination |date=June 10, 2007 |agency=Associated Press |work=The New York Times}}

• 2008 United States salmonellosis outbreak. {{As of|2008|8|28|post=,}} from April 10, 2008, the rare Saintpaul serotype of Salmonella enterica caused at least 1442 cases of salmonellosis food poisoning in 43 states throughout the United States and Canada. As of July 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration suspects that the contaminated food product is a common ingredient in fresh salsa, such as raw tomato, fresh jalapeño pepper, fresh serrano pepper, and fresh cilantro. It is the largest reported salmonellosis outbreak in the United States since 1985. During a House subcommittee hearing into food supply safety and the recent salmonella contamination, a top federal official told panel members that agencies have found the source of the contamination after it showed up in yet another batch of Mexican-grown peppers. Adam Acheson, Food and Drug Administration associate commissioner for foods, said the FDA tracked the salmonella positive test to serrano peppers and irrigation water at a packing facility in Nuevo León, Mexico, and a grower in Tamaulipas. New Mexico and Texas were proportionally the hardest hit by far, with 49.7 and 16.1 reported cases per million, respectively. The greatest number of reported cases have occurred in Texas (384 reported cases), New Mexico (98), Illinois (100), and Arizona (49).{{cite news |title=Cases infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Saintpaul, United States |url=https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/saintpaul/map.html |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention }} For some states, such as California, the CDC has recently{{when |date=August 2019 }} revised the tally of identified illnesses downward. There have been at least 203 reported hospitalizations linked to the outbreak, it has caused at least one death, and it may have been a contributing factor in at least one additional death.{{cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/saintpaul/ |title=Investigation Outbreak of Infections Caused by Salmonella Saintpaul |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention }} The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains that "it is likely many more illnesses have occurred than those reported." If applying a previous CDC estimated ratio of non-reported salmonellosis cases to reported cases (38.6:1), one would arrive at an estimated 40,273 illnesses from this outbreak.{{cite journal |title=FoodNet Estimate of the Burden of Illness Caused by Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections in the United States |last1=Voetsch |first1=Andrew C. |author2=Thomas J. Van Gilder |display-authors=etal |journal=Clinical Infectious Diseases |volume=38 |issue=Supp. 3 |pages=S127–S134 |date=April 15, 2004 |doi=10.1086/381578 |pmid=15095181 |doi-access=free }}

• An aggressive strain of Salmonella, the Newport serotype, was found in beef products made by a Fresno, California-based unit of Cargill (Beef Packers Inc.) in August 2009, resulting in a large recall.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
• Salmonellosis in peanut butter from Peanut Corporation of America in Blakely, Georgia has become "one of the nation’s worst known outbreaks of food-borne disease" in recent years. Nine are believed to have died and an estimated 22,500 were sickened.{{cite news |title=Food Safety Problems Slip Past Private Inspectors |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/business/06food.html?_r=1&hp|work=The New York Times |date=March 5, 2009 |access-date=March 6, 2009 |first1=Michael |last1=Moss |first2=Andrew |last2=Martin }}{{cite news |first=Jane |last=Zhang |title=FDA Warns Against Foods Containing Peanut Butter |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123223126208893569 |quote=Product samples from Peanut Corp. of America in Lynchburg, Va., were tested positive in Minnesota and Connecticut for the bacteria that have sickened at least 474 people in 43 states and may have contributed to six deaths, said officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=January 18, 2009 |access-date=January 18, 2009 }} Criminal negligence was alleged after product tested positive then re-tested "negative" by a second testing agency, and shipped on several occasions. The product was in turn used by dozens of other manufacturers in hundreds of other products which have had to be recalled. The CEO of Peanut Corporation of America was sentenced to 28 years in prison for his role in the outbreak.
• E. coli O157:H7 was believed to have contaminated Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough. Nestlé recalled its products after the FDA reported there was a possibility that the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, which sickened at least 66 people in 28 states, might be a result of raw cookie dough consumption.{{cite web |url=https://www.fda.gov/forconsumers/consumerupdates/ucm168012.htm |title=Update on Recalled Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough |publisher=U.S. Food and Drug Administration }} According to Marler Clark, the number of illnesses reached 70 in 30 states by June 23, 2009, with 35 hospitalizations required, and seven cases of hemolytic-uremic syndrome.{{cite web |url=http://www.about-ecoli.com/ecoli_outbreaks/view/nestle-toll-house-cookie-dough-e-coli-multi-state-outbreak/ |title=Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough E. coli Outbreak |work=about-ecoli.com }} The products which were originally believed to have been tainted came from a Danville, Virginia, plant. However, no E. coli O157:H7 has been found in the plant, according to the FDA. Many media sources have failed to report that E. coli contamination has not been confirmed in Nestlé products. The CDC has reported that ground beef is not a likely source of contamination.

• More than 500 million eggs were recalled after dangerous levels of Salmonella were detected in the eggs of two Iowa producers, Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farm, that distribute eggs in 14 U.S. states. Nearly 2,000 illnesses were reported between May and July, approximately 1,300 more than usual for this strain of the bacteria.{{cite news |author=Melanie S. Welte |title=Egg Recall Expands To More Than Half A Billion Nationwide |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/21/egg-recall-expands-to-mor_n_690019.html |work=The Huffington Post |date=20 August 2010 |access-date=21 August 2010 }} Jack DeCoster and Peter DeCoster plead guilty to the "distribution of adulterated eggs in interstate commerce," and Quality Egg "admitted to falsifying expiration dates on egg cartons" as well as to two attempts to bribe a USDA inspector{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/may/profits-over-safety/profits-over-safety |title=Profits Over Safety: Egg Company's Fraudulent Practices Put Public at Risk |publisher=Federal Bureau of Investigation |date=May 8, 2015 }} In August 2010, the company recalled 380 million eggs in connection with a salmonella outbreak, and a related company, Hillandale Farms, recalled 170 million eggs.{{Cite news |last=Philpott |first=Tom |title=Over Easy: An Egg King Gets Dethroned |work=Mother Jones |access-date=June 7, 2014 |date=June 6, 2014 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/06/over-easy-one-time-king-us-egg-production-cops-plea }}

• In 2011, the United States saw an outbreak of listeriosis from cantaloupes from Colorado that lasted from July to September. 30 people died,{{cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/index.html |title=Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Whole Cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, Colorado |work=Listeriosis (Listeria infection) |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=December 9, 2011 }} making it the second-deadliest recorded U.S. outbreak since the CDC began tracking outbreaks in the 1970s.{{cite news |author=William Neuman |title=Deaths From Cantaloupe Listeria Rise |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/business/deaths-from-cantaloupe-listeria-rises.html?src=me&ref=general |quote=At least 13 people in eight states have died after eating cantaloupe contaminated with listeria, in the deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in the United States in more than a decade, public health officials said on Tuesday.|newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 27, 2011 |access-date=2011-09-29 |author-link=William Neuman (reporter) }}{{cite news |author=Jane E. Allen |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Health/cantaloupes-tied-deadliest-food-outbreak/story?id=14874373 |title=Tainted Cantaloupes Behind Deadliest Food-Borne Outbreak |publisher=ABC News Medical Unit |date=November 3, 2011 |access-date=November 4, 2011 }}
• In June 2011, twenty people fell ill from eating cantaloupe from Del Monte Fresh Produce infected with Salmonella Panama from Guatemala. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had found that eight of the people sickened had eaten cantaloupes purchased from Costco, and they used the purchase records to figure out that the food in common was cantaloupes, and they had come from the same Guatemalan farm.{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/health/la-xpm-2011-sep-02-la-fi-del-monte-20110902-story.html |title=Del Monte suit says FDA botched cantaloupe salmonella probe. Del Monte says officials weren't thorough in their investigation of an outbreak blamed on its imported melons. It wants an alert lifted |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=September 2, 2011 |access-date=September 30, 2011 |first=P.J. |last=Huffstutter }} Del Monte went to court to lift the import ban by the Food and Drug Administration.{{cite news |author=William Neuman |title=Produce Importer in Food Safety Fight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/del-monte-fresh-produce-resists-in-a-food-safety-case.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all |quote=The company, which is one of the country’s largest produce marketers, says the restrictions could damage its reputation, and it has sued the Food and Drug Administration to lift them. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 21, 2011 |access-date=September 30, 2011 |author-link=William Neuman (reporter) }} An investigation found that a pipe carrying raw sewage emptied into an open ditch about 110 yards from the farm's packing house.
• Andrew Williamson Fresh Produce voluntarily recalled one lot of organic grape tomatoes sold under the Limited Edition and Fresh & Easy labels due to a possible health risk from Salmonella.
• Emporia, Kansas-based Tyson Fresh Meats (Tyson Foods) announced it was recalling 131,300 pounds of ground beef products due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
• E. coli in strawberries from Newberg, Oregon, killed one person on August 8, 2011. The Oregon Health Authority announced{{cite web |title=Fresh strawberries from Washington County farm implicated in E. coli O157 outbreak in NW Oregon |url=http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/news/2011/2011-0808.pdf |publisher=Oregon Health Authority |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012143345/http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/news/2011/2011-0808.pdf |url-status=dead |date=August 8, 2011 |access-date=August 8, 2011 |archive-date=October 12, 2012 }} that they had linked at least 10 E. coli infections to a strawberry farm in Newberg, Oregon. Four patients had been hospitalized and an elderly woman died from kidney failure associated with her E. coli illness. The strawberries were sold to buyers who resold them at roadside stands and farmer's markets.{{cite news |last=Roos |first=Robert |title=NEWS SCAN: Strawberry E coli outbreak, beef grinding and Salmonella, mass anthrax prophylaxis, measles hits refugees |url=http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/aug0811newsscan.html |publisher=Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, University of Minnesota |date=August 8, 2011 |access-date=August 10, 2011 |archive-date=March 19, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319212749/http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/aug0811newsscan.html |url-status=dead }}
• One dead in California from Salmonella and 76 more people sickened in 26 states. On August 3, 2011, Cargill recalled 36,000,000 pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company's Springdale, Arkansas, facility from February 20, 2011, through August 2, 2011, due to possible contamination from Salmonella Heidelberg.{{cite web |url=http://www.cargill.com/news-center/news-releases/2011/NA3047807.jsp |title=Cargill initiates voluntary ground turkey recall |publisher=Cargill |access-date=August 7, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810104332/http://www.cargill.com/news-center/news-releases/2011/NA3047807.jsp |archive-date=August 10, 2011 |url-status=dead }}{{cite news |author=William Neuman |title=Turkey Plant May Be Salmonella Link |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/business/turkey-plant-may-be-link-to-salmonella-cases.html |quote=Federal officials said on Tuesday that they were investigating an apparent link between ground turkey meat and a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness that has so far killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 more people in 26 states. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 2, 2011 |access-date=2011-09-30 |author-link=William Neuman (reporter) }}
• In March and April 2011, Jennie-O recalled almost 55,000 pounds of turkey burgers because drug-resistant Salmonella was found in its products.{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42425976 |title=Drug-resistant salmonella possibly in turkey burgers |author=JoNell Aleccia |publisher=NBC News |date=April 4, 2011 |access-date=August 24, 2019 }}{{dead link|date=August 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
• The FDA said papayas imported from Mexico and distributed by Agromod Produce Inc. of McAllen, Texas, is likely the source of 97 cases of Salmonella Agona. To date, 10 people have been hospitalized but there have been no reported deaths. As a result, all papayas sold before July 23, 2011, were voluntarily recalled by Agromod. The cases were reported between January 1 and July 18 in 23 states. More than half of the cases were women, with ages ranging from 1 to 91 and an average age of 20; Texas had the most cases with 25 people falling ill.

• The 2012 salmonella outbreak caused sickness in hundreds of people in the Netherlands and the United States via Salmonella-tainted salmon.
• A peanut butter recall was voluntarily issued in September 2012 by Sunland Inc. due to salmonella.{{cite web |title=Sunland, Inc. Announces Voluntary Extension of Ongoing Recall To Include Raw and Roasted Shelled and In-Shell Peanuts Due to Possible Health Risk |url=https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/ucm323824.htm |publisher=Food and Drug Administration |access-date=October 10, 2013 }} After further investigation, the recall included all 240 products, made at Sunland's production plant in Portales, New Mexico manufactured since March 1, 2010. A total of 35 people from 19 states were sickened from tainted products, most of them children.{{cite web |url=http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2012/sep/25/trader-joes-peanut-butter-recall-expands/ |title=Trader Joe's peanut butter recall expands |author=John Stucke |date=September 25, 2012 |access-date=October 13, 2012 }} The Center for Disease Control (CDC), said the majority of those who became ill claim it was between June 11, 2012, and September 2, 2012.{{cite news |title=Peanut butter recall over salmonella expands to 76 products |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peanut-butter-recall-over-salmonella-expands-to-76-products/ |publisher=CBS News |access-date=October 10, 2013 }} Officials from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found salmonella all over plant including improper handling of the products, unclean equipment and uncovered trailers of peanuts outside the facility. The total of people and states rose to 41 people in 20 states sold by Trader Joe's, Whole Foods, Safeway, Target and other large grocery chains. On November 26, 2012, the FDA suspended Sunland's registration to produce and distribute food product.{{cite news |title=Sunland Peanut Butter Plant Shuttered By FDA, In First-Ever Use Of New Powers, After Huge Recall |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/26/sunland-peanut-butter-plant-fda_n_2194620.html |work=Huffington Post |access-date=October 10, 2013 |date=November 26, 2012 }} Sunland had the right to a hearing and prove to the FDA that its facilities are clean and can reopen.{{cite news |title=FDA halts operations at peanut butter plant linked to salmonella outbreak |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-halts-operations-at-peanut-butter-plant-linked-to-salmonella-outbreak/ |publisher=CBS News |access-date=26 November 2012 }} Sunland closed and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy on October 9, 2013.{{cite web |title=NM Peanut Butter Plant Closes, Files for Chapter 7 |url=http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/nm-peanut-butter-plant-closes-files-chapter-7 |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=October 10, 2013 |archive-date=October 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131016100205/http://bigstory.ap.org/article/nm-peanut-butter-plant-closes-files-chapter-7 |url-status=dead }}
• An unusual strain of E. coli bacteria caused the reported illness of 33 people across several states in the US, carried on organically grown greens like spinach and spring mix. This strain produces shiga toxin, which is thought to have been transferred to the species from the shigella bacterium, by a bacteriophage, a kind of virus that infects bacteria.{{Cite web |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2012/o157h7-11-12/index.html |title=Multistate Outbreak of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 Infections Linked to Organic Spinach and Spring Mix Blend (Final Update) |date=January 17, 2019 |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention }} Cases of food poisoning began to be reported in the New York State area on October 18, 2012. The CDC eventually concluded this was an example of O157:H7, its code for a strain of E. coli that is noteworthy for seeming to have genes from a different species, shigella, producing an unusual toxin, though not one especially lethal to human beings. Overall, 33 people in 5 states are known to have been infected. There were no deaths reported. This outbreak seems to have originated with food from State Garden, an organic produce company in Chelsea, Massachusetts.

• July – August. The E. coli O157:H7 outbreak at Federico's Mexican Restaurant in Litchfield Park, Arizona, (a suburb of Phoenix) grew to include 79 people. At least 23 people were hospitalized in the outbreak, the largest E. coli outbreak in the United States for several years.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/federicos-mexican-restaurant-e-coli-outbreak-74-sickened-23-hospitalized |title=Federico's Mexican Restaurant E. coli outbreak: 74 sickened, 23 hospitalized |author=Josh Frigerio |publisher=American Broadcasting Company |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130822070132/https://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/region_phoenix_metro/central_phoenix/federicos-mexican-restaurant-e-coli-outbreak-74-sickened-23-hospitalized |url-status=dead |date=August 20, 2013 |access-date=August 22, 2013 |archive-date=2013-08-22 }} At least two people developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a severe complication of an E. coli O157:H7 infection that can destroy the kidneys.{{cite web |url=http://www.azcentral.com/community/swvalley/articles/20130820update-e-coli-outbreak-west-valley-has-sickened-abrk.html?nclick_check=1 |title=Update: E. coli outbreak in West Valley has sickened 74 |author=Matthew Longdon |date=August 20, 2013 |work=The Arizona Republic }} Victims filed civil suits against Federico's parent company, Femex LLC, in Maricopa County Superior Court.{{cite web |url=http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=L12696489&type=L.L.C |title=Ariz. Corp. Comm. -- Corporations Division |website=starpas.azcc.gov |access-date=2 February 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140101172342/http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=L12696489&type=L.L.C |archive-date=1 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}

• As of May 16, 2014, 12 cases of E. coli O157:H7 in 4 states (Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, and Ohio) from tainted ground beef from Wolverine Packing Company of Detroit, Michigan.{{cite web |last=Kotwicki |first=Lauren |title=Michigan Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. coli O157:H7 |url=http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2014/recall-030-2014 |work=Food Safety and Inspection Service |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |access-date=May 20, 2014 }}{{cite news |last=Lee |first=Rhodi |title=Wolverine Packing Company recalls 1.8 million pounds of beef due to E. coli contamination |url=http://www.techtimes.com/articles/7286/20140520/wolverine-packing-company-recalls-1-8-million-pounds-of-beef-due-to-e-coli-contamination.htm |access-date=May 20, 2014 |newspaper=Tech Times |date=May 20, 2014 }}

• In August through September 2015, over 300 people were infected with Salmonella. The bulk of the cases were in California and Arizona with the states of California and Texas having one fatality each. It was traced to cucumbers from Mexico distributed by Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce who, on September 4, 2015, voluntarily issued a recall.{{cite web |title=Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Poona Infections Linked to Imported Cucumbers |url=https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/poona-09-15/index.html |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=September 12, 2015}}
• In October through November 2015, 45 people contracted E. coli from Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants. The cases were in Washington State, California, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, and Oregon. At least 16 people were hospitalized. The outbreak warranted the closing and sanitization of over 40 Chipotle restaurants across Washington and Oregon. The restaurants reopened after discarding all supplies and ordering fresh ingredients.{{cite web |title=Chipotle E. coli Outbreak Spreads to Six States |url=http://thinkprogress.org/health/2015/11/21/3724761/chipotle-e-coli-six-states/ |work=Think Progress }}

• In April 2016, CRF Frozen Foods recalled over 400 organic and traditional frozen food products sold under 40 different brands due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The outbreak was linked to 8 cases of listeriosis in the United States.{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/CRF-Frozen-Food-Recall-Expands-Ajinomoto-Windsor-378730341.html |title=Listeria-Related CRF Frozen Food Recall Expands to Ajinomoto |publisher=NBC New York |date=May 10, 2016 |access-date=July 13, 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/layoffs-grow-at-pasco-frozen-food-plant-closed-by-listeria-recall/ |title=Amid frozen-food recall, more than 300 laid off at Pasco plant |date=May 28, 2016 |work=Seattle Times |access-date=June 3, 2016 }}

• In April 2017, a contained outbreak of the botulism toxin was confirmed in California, linked to a cheese sauce. There was no recall of the product.{{cite web |url=http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2017/05/state-says-botulism-outbreak-is-limited-fda-wont-talk/ |title=State says botulism outbreak is limited; FDA won't talk |work=Food Safety News |date=May 24, 2017 |access-date=May 2, 2018 }}

• A strain of Escherichia coli bacteria caused the reported illness of 210 people across 36 states in the US, carried on Romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona. It prompted a multi-state investigation from the CDC and FDA. This outbreak began in the beginning of April 2018 and the FDA found that the contaminated Romaine lettuce came from a Yuma Farm. This strain produces shiga toxin, which is thought to have been transferred to the species from a strain of Shigella by a bacteriophage, a kind of virus that infects bacteria. On or after April 16, 2018, cases of food poisoning began to be reported in the New York State area. The CDC eventually concluded this was an example of O157:H7, its code for a strain of E. coli that is noteworthy for seeming to have genes from a different but related species, Shigella, producing an unusual toxin, though not one especially lethal to human beings. A 2022 study estimated that the total societal loss from the romaine lettuce recall was in the range of $276–$343 million.{{Cite journal |last1=Spalding |first1=Ashley |last2=Goodhue |first2=Rachael E. |last3=Kiesel |first3=Kristin |last4=Sexton |first4=Richard J. |date=2022 |title=Economic impacts of food safety incidents in a modern supply chain: E. coli in the romaine lettuce industry |journal=American Journal of Agricultural Economics |volume=105 |issue=2 |pages=597–623 |language=en |doi=10.1111/ajae.12341 |s2cid=251713103 |issn=0002-9092|doi-access=free }}
• On November 20, 2018, the CDC,{{cite web |title=Outbreak of E. coli Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html |publisher=Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |access-date=23 November 2018}} the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Health Canada{{cite web |title=Public Health Notice - Outbreak of E. coli infections linked to romaine lettuce |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/public-health-notices/2018/outbreak-ecoli-infections-linked-romaine-lettuce.html |website=Public Health Agency of Canada |date=20 November 2018 |publisher=Health Canada |access-date=23 November 2018}} announced that they were investigating a multistate binational outbreak of pathogenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections linked to romaine lettuce. This outbreak was separate from the previous outbreak traced to Yuma, Arizona.{{cite news |last1=Achenbach |first1=Joel |last2=Sun |first2=Lena H |title=Romaine lettuce is not safe to eat, CDC warns U.S. consumers |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/romaine-lettuce-is-not-safe-to-eat-cdc-warns-us-consumers/2018/11/20/726d0ae6-ece9-11e8-96d4-0d23f2aaad09_story.html |access-date=November 23, 2018 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 20, 2018 }}

• A salmonella outbreak was reported across 14 states in October 2021, with 102 people infected and 19 hospitalized. The source of the infections was reported to be from Denver, Colorado-based seafood supplier Northeast Seafood Products, who supplied seafood products to various grocery stores and restaurants, including Albertsons, Safeway, and Sprouts. Most people infected lived in or had traveled from Colorado.{{Cite web|last=Moore|first=Landen|date=2021-10-08|title=Seafood from Colorado linked to multi-state salmonella outbreak|url=https://fox11online.com/news/nation-world/seafood-from-colorado-linked-to-nationwide-salmonella-outbreak|access-date=2021-10-09|website=WLUK}}{{Cite web|last=Roznowski|first=Blayke|date=2021-10-09|title=Salmonella Thompson multi-state outbreak linked to Denver seafood company|url=https://www.thedenverchannelcom/news/local-news/salmonella-thompson-multi-state-outbreak-linked-to-denver-seafood-company|access-date=2021-10-09|website=KMGH|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=March 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• Three brands of onions were recalled in October 2021 after a salmonella outbreak in 37 states. 652 people were infected and 129 were hospitalized.{{cite web |last1=Pittman |first1=Travis |title=These brands of onions are recalled after salmonella outbreak in 37 states |url=https://www.9news.com/article/money/personal-finance/recalls/onion-recall-salmonella-risk/507-21210ca8-e78e-427d-bb2a-a3cd007a3359 |website=KUSA-TV |date=22 October 2021 |access-date=24 October 2021}}

• In August 2023, three people died and six were hospitalized after drinking milkshakes laced with listeria bacteria from a Frugals burger restaurant in Washington state.{{cite news |title=3 dead after drinking milkshakes contaminated with listeria in Washington - National {{!}} Globalnews.ca |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/9914492/listeria-milkshakes-contaminated-tacoma-washington/ |access-date=25 August 2023 |work=Global News}}{{cite news |last1=Albeck-Ripka |first1=Livia |title=Deadly Listeria Outbreak Linked to Milkshakes From Burger Chain |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/21/us/listeria-outbreak-milkshakes-tacoma-frugals.html |access-date=25 August 2023 |work=The New York Times |date=21 August 2023}}

• An ongoing listeriosis outbreak began in May 2024, and has been traced to liverwurst produced at the Jarratt, VA Boar's Head deli meat facility. 7 million pounds of deli meat{{cite web |access-date=2024-10-24 |title= More illnesses expected from Boar's Head listeria outbreak. Lawyer wants Congress investigation |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2024/09/03/boars-head-listeria-recall-deli-meat-florida-deaths/75052744007/ |date=October 24, 2024 |website=Sarasota Herald}} were recalled in July in conjunction with the 2024 United States listeriosis outbreak. USDA inspection records released under the Freedom of Information Act revealed 69 noncompliances at the Jarratt facility in the year preceding the outbreak. These noncompliances included heavy meat buildup on equipment and walls, condensation blowing onto uncovered meat product, insects entering and leaving pickle vats, as well as mold and mildew at staff handwashing sinks.{{cite web |access-date=2024-10-24 |title= Bugs, mold and mildew found in Boar's Head plant linked to deadly listeria outbreak |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bugs-mold-mildew-inspection-boars-head-plant-listeria/ |date=October 24, 2024 |website=CBS News}}
• In October 2024, an E. coli outbreak was linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounder in 10 U.S. states (Colorado, Kansas, Utah, Wyoming, and portions of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, and Oklahoma). The CDC has not confirmed the origin, but it is suspected to be either the quarter-pound meat patties or slivered onions. As of October 22, there have been 49 cases, 10 hospitalizations, and 1 death.{{cite web |access-date=2024-10-23 |title=E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders |url=https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/outbreaks/e-coli-O157.html |date=October 23, 2024 |website=CDC}}

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