US food safety authorities have launched an investigation into an ongoing multistate outbreak of salmonella typhimurium.

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As of Wednesday (7 January), the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had received reports of 388 cases of salmonella typhimurium contracted between September and December. The reports came in from across 42 states, CDC revealed.


CDC said that it is collaborating with public health officials in “many states” as well as the Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


“CDC and its public health partners are vigorously working to identify the specific contaminated product, probably a food or foods, that is causing this outbreak,” CDC said in a statement released yesterday.


However, the watchdog warned that the identity of the contaminated product is often not “readily apparent”.

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This is the latest in a string of US food safety scares that have sparked widespread criticism of the country’s food safety regulators.


The FDA in particular has come under heavy fire from critics for its handling of a number of high-profile safety scares, including its management of food-borne illness issues and product recalls.


Last year, the federal office struggled to find the source of a salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 1,300 people.