Food Safety Recalls and Alerts: October 2026 Industry Bulletin
October 2026 brought a steady flow of recall activity across the major food safety authorities, with Listeria monocytogenes in chilled ready-to-eat foods and Salmonella in low-moisture ingredients standing out. A Salmonella outbreak linked to broccoli sprouts and seeds continues in the United States, and a pistachio-related Salmonella recall affected ready-to-eat salads and pesto in both the UK and Ireland. The most directly temperature-related event of the month came from USDA FSIS, which announced on 17 October a recall of more than 1.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry after products were stored in a warehouse cooler with temperature deviations. Beyond that, this bulletin describes the patterns that were actually present rather than implying a temperature cause the authorities did not state.
- Temperature Indicators Staff
- Tags: CFIA cold chain FDA food safety FSA FSAI FSANZ FSIS HACCP RASFF recalls thermal processing
Regulatory Compliance Update Bulletin: Temperature Monitoring — October 2026
The October 2026 bulletin covers the new 2026 FDA Food Code and its electronically monitored alternative cooling method, FDA's final fresh-cut produce guidance, the UK FSA's Future of Food Regulation reforms, and India's draft change to residual shelf-life rules for imported drugs. Sources checked this month include FDA, CFIA, USDA FSIS, WHO, USP, MHRA, FSANZ, CDSCO, FSSAI, Philippines FDA and Thailand FDA.
- Temperature Indicators Staff
- Tags: Cold Chain Food Processing GDP Compliance HACCP Medical Sterilisation Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance
September 2026 Food Safety Recall Bulletin: FDA, FSIS, CFIA, FSA, RASFF, FSAI and FSANZ
The month to mid-September 2026 was dominated by post-process contamination in chilled, ready-to-eat foods. Listeria monocytogenes accounted for the largest share of notified food alerts across the six jurisdictions we track, appearing in deli salads, cured and cooked meats, soft cheeses and, unusually, twice in packs of pitted black olives on UK shelves. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) featured strongly in the UK and Ireland, in filled wraps, chilled pasta salad, sprouting seeds and a raw goat milk kefir. Salmonella notifications in the United States clustered around low-moisture and sprouted products. Alongside the microbiological picture, several recalls in the period were caused by process and packing control failures rather than raw-material contamination — a mispacked chilled salad in the UK, a fermentation-driven spoilage recall in Ireland, and a run of undeclared allergen alerts traced to labelling and line-changeover errors. The summaries below are grouped by regulatory authority, with links to the original notices.
- Temperature Indicators Staff
- Tags: CFIA cold chain FDA food safety FSAI FSANZ HACCP MHRA RASFF recalls thermal processing
Regulatory Compliance Update Bulletin: Temperature Monitoring — September 2026
This month's bulletin covers PIC/S's newly adopted PI 006-4 recommendation on qualification and validation, effective 1 October 2026, which introduces new transport verification requirements for temperature data loggers. We also confirm — after checking FDA, CFIA, USDA FSIS, WHO, USP, MHRA, FSANZ, CDSCO, FSSAI, Philippines FDA, and Thailand FDA — that no other material regulatory changes affecting temperature monitoring occurred this period.
- Temperature Indicators Staff
- Tags: Cold Chain Food Processing GDP Compliance HACCP Medical Sterilisation Pharmaceutical Regulatory Compliance
