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Supplements have led to 12 salmonella cases, 2 hospitalizations in Wisconsin, FDA says
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Dwight Adams, Indianapolis Star
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded a recall of superfood supplements that has already sickened dozens of people nationwide, with Wisconsin logging the highest number of cases.
As of Jan. 29, the two recalled dietary supplements have been linked to salmonella infections in 65 people across 28 states, according to the FDA. The recall was initially only issued for a dietary supplement powder by the brand Live It Up, but the FDA added capsules from the brand Why Not Natural last week.
The first Wisconsin resident to become ill reported symptoms starting Oct. 1, 2025, according to a Jan. 15 news release from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Here’s what to know about the recall, including what to do if you’ve purchased the products:
Which products are being recalled?
The following products are being recalled, per the FDA:
- Live it Up-brand Super Greens dietary supplement powder with lot numbers beginning with “A,” including both original and wild berry flavors. All stick pack products with 08/2026 to 01/2028 have also been recalled.
- Why Not Natural Pure Organic Moringa Green Superfood capsules with lot number A25G051 and an expiration date of 07/2028 marked on the bottom of the bottle. The product comes in 120-capsule bottles.
Both products were sold nationwide, primarily online through their company websites, as well as through Amazon, eBay and Walmart.
How many people have gotten sick in Wisconsin?
As of Feb. 2, Wisconsin has 12 cases linked to the outbreak, including two hospitalizations, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Wisconsin is the only state to report more than five cases, per the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions.
Nationwide, there have been 14 hospitalizations. No deaths have been reported.
What to do if you purchased recalled supplements
Here’s what you should do if you own any of the recalled products, according to the Wisconsin DHS:
- Do not consume the product, and throw it away or return it.
- Use hot soapy water or a dishwasher to wash any items and surfaces that may have come into the contact with the product.
- If you have consumed either of the products and are experiencing severe symptoms of salmonella infection, contact your heath care provider.
Symptoms of salmonella
Symptoms of salmonella usually start between 12 to 72 hours after swallowing the contaminated food, typically presenting as diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps, according to the FDA.
Most people will recover without treatment after four to seven days, but some are at increased risk of severe symptoms and hospitalization. This includes people with weakened immune systems, children younger than 5 years old and adults 65 or older.
Per the Wisconsin DHS, severe symptoms include:
- Diarrhea and a fever higher than 102 degrees
- Diarrhea for more than 3 days that is not improving
- Bloody diarrhea
- Vomiting to the point you cannot keep liquids down
- Signs of dehydration, including dizziness, less peeing, and dry mouth and throat
(WLUK) — Wisconsin State Patrol troopers are teaming up with truckers to better spot dangerous driving behaviors.
The annual Trooper in a Truck initiative kicks off next week in Wisconsin.
Troopers will ride along with with semitruck and bus drivers to use the higher vantage point to spot dangerous driving behaviors, especially near commercial motor vehicles.
Troopers will be looking for risky driving behaviors, including distracted driving, speeding, following too closely and seatbelt violations. When an officer identifies a violation from the truck or bus, they will radio to patrol cars in the area for appropriate enforcement action.
Drivers can expect to see Trooper in a Truck enforcement in the following areas:
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New Wisconsin athletic director Shawn Eichorst, who spent the last eight years at Texas, believes his new and old schools have much in common.
Both are well-regarded research universities in state capitals that belong to major conferences and have relatively similar enrollments.
He also pointed out one difference.
“There’s swag at Texas, right?” Eichorst said Tuesday during his introductory news conference. “There’s 30 million people in Texas. We’ve got swag, too, but we have a little humility with that deal. We need to get our shoulders up. We need to feel good about what it is that we’re doing.”
Wisconsin could gain more of that Texas swagger if its football program gets back to winning the way it did the last time Eichorst was employed in Madison. Eichorst, who most recently worked as a deputy athletic director at Texas, received a five-year deal worth $1.6 million annually, with provisions for increases and incentives. He was hired 2½ months after Chris McIntosh left to become the Big Ten’s deputy commissioner for strategy.
Eichorst worked at Wisconsin from 2006-11 when Barry Alvarez was AD and Bret Bielema was leading the football program. He followed that up with stints as an athletic director at Miami (2011-12) and Nebraska (2012-17) before Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte hired him in 2018.
He returns to Wisconsin with the Badgers coming off back-to-back losing seasons in football, a notable fall for a program that had 22 straight winning seasons from 2002-23. Wisconsin coach Luke Fickell has gone 17-21 after posting a 53-10 record with one College Football Playoff appearance in his last five years at Cincinnati.
Eichorst hasn’t worked with Fickell before but said he’s encouraged by their initial conversations.
“Obviously he’s won every place he’s been,” Eichorst said. “My expectation is more of me than him, meaning I need to pour into him, learn more about his program, how he has things set up, how his athletes are taken care of, how we’re supporting that endeavor. And then we can figure out, as we move along, what that might look like.”
Football struggles led to Eichorst’s downfall the last time he was an athletic director.
He fired Nebraska coach Bo Pelini in 2014 and hired Mike Riley, who had gone 93-80 in 14 seasons at Oregon State. Eichorst was dismissed shortly after Nebraska suffered an early-season loss to Northern Illinois in 2017. Riley was fired at the end of that season after going 19-19 in three years.
When Eichorst’s hiring was announced last week, he spoke about how much he had grown from that Nebraska stint. Wisconsin interim chancellor Eric Wilcots led the search and has emphasized Eichorst’s accomplishments at Texas, which has won the Learfield Directors’ Cup all-sports standings five times in the last six years.
Texas ranked anywhere from fifth to ninth in the Directors’ Cup standings in the five years before Wilcots’ arrival. Texas’ football team went a combined 23-27 from 2014-17 but has made two College Football Playoff appearances in the last three years.
“Everybody looks at the end result of what we did at Texas,” Eichorst said. “When we got there in 2018, we weren’t very good in a lot of areas. And that didn’t change overnight.”
Eichorst said one thing that has caught his attention about Wisconsin is the overall quality of its head coaches.
“You’re going to be as good as your coaches,” Eichorst said. “That’s it. If you have an elite group of coaches who are working together and uniting and galvanizing and learning from one another and taking it out to their individual programs, I think you can start to build something special. I go back to Texas. We built a room of really elite head coaches and put them at the top of everything we did to help guide us.”
Eichorst said this job is particularly important to him because of his Wisconsin roots. He was born in Lone Rock, about 45 miles northwest of the Madison campus.
He treasured his previous stint at Wisconsin and says he believes this school “represents everything that is great about higher education and college athletics.”
“Nobody will work harder for Wisconsin athletics,” Eichorst said. “I love this state, and I love everything that it represents. The passion is there. You can see it. I don’t have to make it up. I’ve lived it. It’s in my heart.”
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South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, officials in standoff with homeowner over year-round skeleton display
The city of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has ordered a homeowner to take down his year-round giant skeleton display or face fines, but the homeowner is standing firm and refusing, even as the deadline to remove the display has passed.
Now there’s a skeleton standoff.
The city cited ordinance violations in their order for Sean Oster to dismantle the lawn decorations. The notice specifically references “large Halloween decorations being displayed not during the appropriate time of year.”
Oster was also ordered to make other improvements to his property.
But Oster has refused to take down the display, which is re-dressed as the year goes on and is currently sporting a Fourth of July theme. The Institute for Justice, a public interest law firm, has come to his aid, saying the city’s actions violate Oster’s First Amendment rights.
City administrators declined to comment, citing a pending investigation. Neighbors have been divided by the display; some say they’re fine with it, and think it brings fun and positivity to the neighborhood, but some others want to see it removed and say the lawn should be kept up better and more consistently.
Oster said he’s hoping to reach an agreement with the city, and said he’s corrected all other violations outside of the display.
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