The 2026 salmonella outbreak traced to jalapeños from a Mexican farm
Overview · reviewed October 28, 2026
In August 2026 a salmonella outbreak that sickened about 100 people was linked to jalapeño peppers, prompting Chipotle to pull jalapeños from some restaurants and Taylor Fresh Foods to recall some products containing them.[1][2]The US Department of Agriculture issued a public health alert for meat and poultry products made with the peppers.[3]
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The US Department of Agriculture issued a public health alert for meat and poultry products made with the peppers.[3]
Coverage over time
Share of tracked outlets · weekly (UTC)
16%0%
Aug 2026this week
LeftCenterRightLighter bar: this week so far
Each bar is the share of the outlets on our Left / Center / Right rating scale that we tracked publishing that week which carried reporting on this story, split by the outlets' ratings. We track more outlets now than in the archive, so a share keeps earlier and later weeks comparable. An outlet counts once a week however much it published, and outlets in one ownership or syndication group count as one on each side they appear on. A rating describes the outlet, not the report. A gap means no such reports were collected that week, not that nothing was reported anywhere. Weeks run Monday to Sunday in UTC, so a report published on a Sunday evening in US Eastern time counts in the next week. 5 more outlets off the scale (not rated, or outside the left-right graphs) also reported; they are not in this chart. See them.
Weekly counts, outlets and reports (2 weeks with coverage)
Outlets on the rating scale that carried this story each week, of the outlets tracked that week, newest first
Week of (UTC)
Left
Center
Right
Of tracked
Share
Receipts
Aug 10, 2026
16
46
12
74 of 545
14%
Aug 3, 2026
22
44
18
84 of 537
16%
Latest coverage
The newest reporting in this story's record.
Aug 13, 2026 · first reported · Headline from The Oregonian
Taylor Fresh Foods' recall came weeks after its Taylor Farms unit recalled iceberg lettuce in the cyclospora outbreak,[2] which is followed in its own arc.
