FDA Investigates Two Salmonella Outbreaks With 49 Illnesses

The Food and Drug Administration is investigating two new outbreaks of Salmonella Enteritidis infections that have sickened a combined 49 people, according to the agency's outbreak investigation table updated on November 12, 2026. The larger outbreak, reference 1425, lists 35 cases. The smaller one, reference 1427, lists 14. Both are marked active, and both are described as ongoing.

Neither listing names a food. The table gives the product for both outbreaks as not yet identified, and the FDA says it has initiated traceback in each investigation. Traceback means investigators follow the foods sick people reported eating back through distributors and suppliers, looking for a point where the two chains meet. It doesn't mean a source has been confirmed, and the FDA hasn't said whether the two outbreaks are connected to each other.

The table also doesn't say where the patients live, how old they are, whether anyone has been hospitalized, or when illnesses began. That absence is normal at this stage of an FDA listing, but it means there is no consumer action attached to either investigation yet. A public health advisory is issued when an investigation produces specific steps consumers can take, and neither of these has one.

Salmonella Enteritidis is one of the most common Salmonella types in foodborne illness, and it's the same type in both listings, which is part of why the pair draws attention. Two separate reference numbers mean investigators are treating them as two clusters unless the traceback evidence merges them. Case counts in both listings can change as state health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report more findings.

The same FDA update moved other Salmonella business along. CIDRAP noted the agency also raised the case count in a separate Salmonella Javiana outbreak of unknown origin from 65 to 70; that outbreak was first announced on October 28, 2026, and it isn't one of the two new Enteritidis investigations. Keeping the listings separate matters, because the counts and the foods, once named, will move independently.

For now, the actionable record is short: 49 illnesses, two reference numbers, traceback under way, and no named product to avoid. The next FDA table update is where a food name, a state list or a hospitalization count would first appear, and until one does, there's nothing on a grocery shelf that these two investigations have tied to the illnesses.

The FDA updates its outbreak table weekly, and Medical Daily reported it will follow whether a food gets named in either investigation. Until a listing changes, the two reference numbers are the handles to watch: 1425 for the 35-case outbreak and 1427 for the 14-case one. A named product, a recall or an advisory attached to either number is the signal that traceback found something solid enough to act on.