Home-delivered meals linked to UK Listeria death

An outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections, which resulted in one death, was caused by contaminated home-delivered meals, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). In mid-April 2025, the Gastrointestinal Infections, Food Safety and One Health (GIFSOH) Division was informed of two cases of listeriosis with …

The Sunday Edition: GMOs

Quick bites from around the food safety arena The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have linked 431 illnesses in 32 states to fresh jalapeño pepperscontaminated with Salmonella Javiana. The peppers were grown in Sinaloa, Mexico and distributed by San Diego-based Coast Citrus Distributors. More …

Grilled Fig and Blue Cheese Pie

What happens when you grill a pie? The crust gets smoky and the bottom stays crisp from the indirect heat. This one uses a standard pie crust laid on the grill, topped with fresh figs halved and arranged cut-side up, crumbled blue cheese tucked between …

Publisher’s Platform: Twenty-One Outbreaks Is a Normal Year. Ten Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty Sick From One of Them Is Not.

CDC’s August 20 update puts the iceberg lettuce Cyclospora outbreak at 10,930 illnesses, 454 hospitalizations and two deaths across seventeen states, with no new states added. Federal regulators have announced twenty-one foodborne outbreak investigations so far in 2026, against twenty-eight in all of 2025. The number of outbreaks is …