Weekend Wrap-Up: Twenty-Seven Children and Adults Sick After Two Pumpkin Patches and a State Fair Petting Zoo, Three of Them With Kidney Failure. The Justice Department Told FDA in Writing That Its Own Rules Keep Outbreak Names Secret and That It Can Change Them. CDC Said the Oysters Made People Sick. And FDA Closed a Fifty-Person E. coli Outbreak Saying More Detail Would Not Have Helped You.

Weekend Wrap-Up: Twenty-Seven Children and Adults Sick After Two Pumpkin Patches and a State Fair Petting Zoo, Three of Them With Kidney Failure. The Justice Department Told FDA in Writing That Its Own Rules Keep Outbreak Names Secret and That It Can Change Them. CDC Said the Oysters Made People Sick. And FDA Closed a Fifty-Person E. coli Outbreak Saying More Detail Would Not Have Helped You.

Saturday, October 31, 2026 Last Saturday’s edition was about two sets of books — the record the agencies keep and the one they publish. This week (week 17) the published record started saying what the working record already knew, some of it in writing from people who rarely put things in writing. The Justice Department told...