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E. coli and Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Alfalfa Sprouts

Outbreak over 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

Outbreak over

Distribution, as written

16 states

Outbreak figures (CDC's latest)

77 cases · 6 hospitalized · 0 deaths

E. coli O26:H11, O103:H25, and O168:H8 and Salmonella Agona · illnesses began May 31, 2026 to Oct 19, 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, OR, 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

Outbreak over

Closed in this dataset's terms

Whether CDC still lists the investigation as open.

Dates

Posted: Aug 21, 2026
Last agency update: Nov 9, 2026
Closed: date not given

What is missing or inferred

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

closedDate
rootCause (CDC notices describe the contaminated food, not why it was contaminated)

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 Nov 9, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC. 2 revisions since.

Closed Nov 9, 2026, 10:26 PM UTC
status: open → closed
agency status: Investigation open → Outbreak over
updated date: 2026-10-01 → 2026-11-09
cases: 76 → 77
Updated Oct 1, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC
states: FL, IA, IN, KS, MI, MN, NC, ND, NH, NY, PA, SC, SD, WA, WI → FL, IA, IN, KS, MI, MN, NC, ND, NH, NY, OR, PA, SC, SD, WA, WI
updated date: 2026-09-01 → 2026-10-01
cases: 55 → 76
hospitalizations: 4 → 6

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