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To identify the source of the outbreak, FDA officials conducted a traceback investigation — a process in which officials trace food that made people ill all the way back to the farm or production facility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2026

"Being able to trace signals back to their source is important because a positive blood test needs to be followed by imaging or other diagnostic procedures directed at the right organ," said Li.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

To trace the breadcrumbs of this tragedy, readers need critical context.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

NHS Tayside had said it was working with Police Scotland to trace a missing patient.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

His English was clipped by a faint accent I couldn’t trace.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

My perverse love for lip stuff traces back to when I was 4 and first tried on my grandmother’s Clinique lipstick in Raspberry Glace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

GM’s famed “Small Block” V-8 engine, a design that also traces its lineage back to the 1950s, has a similar following and cachet to the Hemi, Nicholson said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

"Our excavations may tell us something about the end of Urartu," he said, noting that researchers have found "the traces of a very powerful earthquake."

From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026

The chief vet of Kenya's Wildlife Service, Dr Isaac Lekolool, told us that they had found traces of cyanide in samples taken from the elephants' stomachs.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

She traces the outline of the “stuck that” sticker with one fingertip.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

The Food and Drug administration traced an outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasite-born intestinal disease, to contaminated lettuce grown in Mexico by Salinas-based Taylor Fresh Foods that made its way to Taco Bell.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

On Aug. 4, the Food and Drug Administration revealed that a salmonella outbreak traced back to contaminated jalapeños imported from Mexico had left hundreds of Americans sick.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

Ipswich's previous recruitment model can be traced back to their four seasons in League One.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

Forrest said Bisignano never maintained a dossier on employees and said it was false that he asked for negative survey responses to be traced back to their authors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

The cover was dull and worn now, but Danny traced his finger where he’d seen the golden letters come alive.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

By tracing the origins of enzymes during the earliest split between bacteria and archaea, the researchers found evidence that free-living cells may have originated independently twice.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Bizarrely, he insists on more contact tracing, as if oblivious to the fact that identified cases are a trivial proportion of the true pandemic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The BBC World Service's Follow the Money series spent a week tracing the American beef supply chain to find out what has caused the price jump and discover where all the cash is going.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

After a few blocks on Reseda, Papas turned back into the neighborhood centered around Etiwanda and started tracing loops across the blocks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

Anya nodded and began reading, tracing along the words with the pointer so her fingers wouldn’t smudge the aging ink.

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack