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Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Fresh Basil, April 2024

Outbreak over CDC Outbreak notice Biological

Read the agency's notice · Agency id: salmonella/basil-04-24

What the agency said

Product
Fresh Basil
Status, as written
Outbreak over
Distribution, as written
14 states
Outbreak figures (CDC's latest)
36 cases · 4 hospitalized · 0 deaths
Salmonella Typhimurium · illnesses began Feb 11, 2024 to May 26, 2024

How this record is classified

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Hazard type
Biological
Stated by CDC
Organism, allergen, or material
Salmonella
Stated by CDC
Product category
Produce
Inferred from the agency's wording by our rules · food tags: herbs
Geography
Multi-state
Stated by the agency
CT, FL, GA, IL, KS, MA, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, RI, TX, 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: Oct 16, 2024
Last agency update: Jun 18, 2024
Closed: Jun 18, 2024

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, 3:08 PM UTC. 1 revision since.

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