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E. coli and Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Alfalfa Sprouts

Investigation open CDC Outbreak notice Biological

Read the agency's notice · Agency id: ecoli/outbreaks/alfalfa-sprouts-08-26

What the agency said

Product
Alfalfa Sprouts
Status, as written
Investigation open
Distribution, as written
15 states
Outbreak figures (CDC's latest)
55 cases · 4 hospitalized · 0 deaths
E. coli O26:H11, O103:H25, and O168:H8 and Salmonella Agona · illnesses began May 31, 2026 to Aug 8, 2026

How this record is classified

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Hazard type
Biological
Stated by CDC
Organism, allergen, or material
Salmonella, E. coli (STEC)
Stated by CDC
Product category
Produce
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules · food tags: sprouts
Geography
Multi-state
Stated by the agency
FL, IA, IN, KS, MI, MN, NC, ND, NH, NY, PA, SC, SD, WA, WI
Root cause
Not stated
Not stated by the agency
(CDC notices describe the contaminated food, not why it was contaminated)
How it was found
Illness reports or outbreak
Coded by the agency
“CDC outbreak investigation”
Corrective action
Outbreak investigation, recall issued
Stated by the agency
CDC notice: recall issued
Status
Investigation open
Open in this dataset's terms
Whether CDC still lists the investigation as open.
Dates
Posted: Aug 21, 2026
Last agency update: Sep 1, 2026

What is missing or inferred

Fields the source did not provide. They are shown as "not stated", never estimated.

Fields assigned by our rules from the agency's wording: productCategory. Rules version 1.0.

Record history

First seen by this site Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC (loaded from the agency's history when the dataset was first built). Last changed Sep 17, 2026, 2:29 PM UTC. No tracked field has changed since.

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