What to know: Bill Marler questions why victims or their families are not told the cause of illness or death. Marler recalls how he informed a family that their husband/father died after suffering a Listeria infection. 

There are 49 people with E. coli infections. Twenty-nine patients have been identified with Entamoeba histolytica infections. 

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In a letter to Secretary Kennedy and Commissioner Makary, Bill Marler asks for the names of the grower, processor, broker, distributors, and points of service identified in a 2024 multistate E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce.

The general public and interested parties have 20 days to provide comments on a reorganization of the USDA, which the agriculture secretary says is already 95 percent done.

The Food Safety Research Network has been awarded $863,000 over three years.

Health officials in an Argentinian province have reported 50 confirmed Trichinella infections so far this year. There have also been three confirmed and two suspected outbreaks.