NewsOct 5, 2026
If you ate breakfast sausage at a restaurant in California, Florida, Michigan, or Nevada in the past week and feel fine, you're almost certainly past the risk from this recall. USDA pulled one lot of Fontanini Item 393 breakfast pork sausage links after two customers reported clear hard plastic in it. The Class I label on the recall describes the worst that could happen to someone who eats it. The product only went to foodservice, so it never reached a grocery shelf or a home freezer.
NewsSep 26, 2026
If you have Graziers grass-fed raw milk cheese from Sierra Nevada Cheese Company in your fridge, throw it out or return it now. The recall covers every package, every size, of the medium cheddar, sharp cheddar, jalapeno jack, and Monterey jack. For the next nine days, watch anyone who ate it, especially young children, for bloody diarrhea, high fever, vomiting, or dehydration. If those appear, get to a clinician fast and name the cheese. The wrong first treatment can turn a scary week into a life-threatening one.
NewsSep 24, 2026
If you've got vacuum-sealed pork, beef, or goat labeled A&D Foods in your freezer, don't cook it. USDA recalled 167,639 pounds because the federal inspection stamp on the label is forged. No veterinarian checked the animals before slaughter, and no one verified the sanitation that keeps Salmonella, E. coli, and Listeria off the carcass. No illnesses have been reported, but USDA rates this Class I, its most serious tier.
NewsSep 4, 2026
Broccoli sprouts are still worth eating, and the sulforaphane research holds up. The catch right now is one brand: sixteen people across Washington, Montana, and Idaho have Salmonella tied to Evergreen Fresh Sprouts broccoli sprouts. Toss any Evergreen sprouts in the fridge and clean what they touched. Sprouts are the rare vegetable where washing cannot undo contamination once a seed carried it in. If you want to keep eating them, cook them.
NewsSep 4, 2026
If you have organic frozen blueberries or mixed berries from Publix or Walmart in your freezer, check the bag. The FDA has escalated the recall to Class I, its most serious tier, after people across Florida and Georgia got sick from Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O145:H28 traced to a single Chilean supplier. Freezing doesn't kill this bug, and rinsing won't reliably wash it off. If your bag matches, throw it out.
NewsAug 25, 2026
Skip Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce and the Marketside bagged salads from the July recall, and treat any untraceable pre-cut leafy green the same way through the rest of summer. The 2026 US Cyclospora outbreak is the largest the country has ever measured, and it isn't over. Washing and chlorine rinses won't save you. If watery diarrhea drags past three days, say the word Cyclospora when you call your doctor, because a short course of one common antibiotic ends it fast.
NewsAug 24, 2026
If you have eggs in the fridge, check the short side of the carton for plant code P-1950 or 0840962 and a Julian date between 157 and 184. Those cartons, sold as Kroger, Simple Truth, Brookshire's, Country Morning, and Cal-Maine Sunups, are part of a Class I recall tied to a Salmonella outbreak now in seventeen states. If it matches, throw it out or return it for a refund. Keeping other eggs? Cook until both yolk and white are firm.
NewsAug 23, 2026
Five Outshine Fruit Bar flavors and the Variety Pack are being pulled nationwide over possible glass fragments. Check your freezer for six specific UPCs with best-by dates from May 31, 2027 through November 30, 2027; if a box matches, return it for a refund or throw it out. No illnesses have been reported, and the clinical picture for anyone who already ate a bar is more reassuring than the word 'glass' suggests. There's a short list of symptoms, though, that would turn a scare into a visit.
NewsAug 23, 2026
You can. Uncomplicated Salmonella in a healthy adult resolves on its own. Whether it's serious depends less on the pepper and more on who caught it: the same illness plays out very differently in a healthy 30-year-old than in an 80-year-old or a newborn.
NewsAug 22, 2026
If you have fresh jalapeños, salsa, guacamole, or dip at home from Coast Citrus, Taylor Farms, NatureBest, or Whole Foods with a "Best If Used By" date on or before August 16, 2026, throw them out. Don't wash them. Same story if you ate at Chipotle or QDOBA between June 14 and July 16: watch for diarrhea and fever. Symptoms usually show up within three days but can arrive as late as a week later. Most healthy adults ride it out at home. A short list of warning signs tells you when to stop waiting.
Food SafetyAug 22, 2026
If you already ate the recalled Publix GreenWise frozen whole blueberries or mixed berries and feel fine, don't reach for a stool test or a course of antibiotics. Stop eating the product, clean whatever it touched, and watch for E. coli symptoms for up to nine days. Get medical care if warning signs appear, because this is a Shiga toxin-producing E. coli outbreak, where antibiotics and anti-diarrheal drugs can raise complication risk. The recall is narrow, so start by checking whether the berries in your freezer match the recalled products.
Food SafetyAug 22, 2026
If those Calco or Everything Sprouts alfalfa sprouts are still in your fridge, throw them out. You can't rinse them safe, because these bacteria grow inside the sprout, not on the surface. If you already ate them, watch for one to two weeks: diarrhea, stomach cramps, and fever. Get medical care early if the diarrhea turns bloody or you notice you're urinating less.
