It’s Thursday, April 10th, 2025, and we’ve got another round of food safety headlines coming your way. Let’s get started.

What to know: The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a new outbreak of infections from Listeria monocytogenes.

The outbreak has sickened 14 people, but the FDA has not released their ages or where they live. The source of the Listeria has not yet been determined.

The disposal of Fukushima’s contaminated water poses profound and potentially catastrophic risks to the environment and therefore seafood.

According to a recent study, published in Environmental Science and Technology, Fukushima contaminated water contains 63 non-tritium radionuclides. Once incorporated into organisms, these radionuclides accumulate in different organs and humans can ingest them through seafood consumption.

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Sweden has published data on the number of people that were affected by major pathogens such as Salmonella, Campylobacter, E. coli, and Listeria in 2024.

Data from Folkhälsomyndigheten (the Public Health Agency of Sweden) shows that outbreaks of Salmonella led to the highest incidence of cases infected in Sweden since 2010. Whole genome sequencing identified six major outbreaks with 10 or more patients.

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.