The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a new outbreak of foodborne illnesses.
The agency has not yet determined a cause of the Salmonella Richmond outbreak, which has sickened at least 11 people. The FDA is not reporting the patients’ ages or where they live.
The FDA has begun traceback but is not reporting what food it is tracing.
There are likely many more sick people in the outbreak — up to 29 for every confirmed patient — because some people do not seek medical treatment and others are not specifically tested for Salmonella infection.
In other outbreak news, the patient count in an outbreak of Salmonella Lomalinda infections has increased to 40, up from 39 a week ago. The source of the outbreak has not yet been determined. The FDA is not reporting where the patients live or their ages. The agency first posted the outbreak on Sept. 17.
The FDA has declared two outbreaks from the cyclospora parasite to be over.
The first outbreak was initially reported on July 16 and sickened 47 people.
The source of the parasite was not determined. The FDA conducted traceback but did not report what food it traced. It also conducted an onsite inspection and sample testing but did not report what location it inspected or what it tested. The agency did not report where the patients lived or their ages.
For the other outbreak from the cyclospora parasite, the FDA reported 69 patients. The agency first reported the outbreak on Aug. 13. The FDA did not report the patients’ ages or where they live. The agency conducted traceback but did not reveal what food it traced. It also conducted onsite inspections and sample testing but did not report what location it inspected or what it tested.
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