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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.

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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.

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Food Safety Recall Bulletin — August 2026

The month to 15 August 2026 was dominated by contaminated raw ingredients working their way downstream into ready-to-eat products, rather than by failures inside the factory itself. A single grower in Sinaloa, Mexico sits behind a 345-case Salmonella Javiana outbreak in the United States that has now pulled chilled dips, salsas and sandwiches off shelves in 26 states and reached as far as Ontario. In Ireland, contaminated imported sesame seed triggered six separate recalls in six days, ending with pre-packed deli salads. Sprouting seed carrying Shiga toxin-producing E. coli was recalled across at least twelve European countries and the UK. Meanwhile, Listeria monocytogenes continued its steady presence in chilled ready-to-eat foods — chilled pasta salads in the UK, soup kits in the US, and processed meats in Quebec, where one Charlevoix producer recalled a second time within four weeks. Notably, several authorities also logged explicit cold chain breakdowns at borders, with consignments rejected for temperature excursions in transit. Below is a summary of the significant recalls and alerts issued by the major regulators during the period, with links to the original notices.

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Regulatory Compliance Update Bulletin: Temperature Monitoring — August 2026

This bulletin covers six regulatory developments affecting temperature monitoring in August 2026: the EMA/PIC/S Annex 15 revision, the FDA's lot-level food traceability flexibility consultation, post-transition QMSR inspections under Compliance Program 7382.850, WHO PQS E006 electronic monitoring requirements for vaccine cold chain equipment, India's Revised Schedule M now fully in force, and cold chain licensing conditions in Thailand and the Philippines. Sources checked this period included the FDA, USDA FSIS, CFIA, WHO, USP, MHRA, FSANZ, EMA/PIC/S, CDSCO, FSSAI, the Philippines FDA and the Thai FDA.

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