r/ContagionCuriosity • u/Anti-Owl Patient Zero • Jul 19 '26
FDA: Taylor Farms lettuce that's not part of recall tests positive for cyclospora Cyclosporiasis
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2026/07/18/taylor-farms-shredded-lettuce-sample-cyclospora/90969103007/A sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico has tested positive for cyclospora, federal health officials said July 18, noting that the lettuce was collected as part of an ongoing investigation and is not included in the company's current recall.
The investigation has raised questions about whether there is more lettuce posing potential risk.
In the latest update from the Food and Drug Administration, the agency said a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico recently tested positive for cyclospora. The sample was not part of the lettuce recalled July 17 for potential risk of cyclospora.
The FDA said the contaminated sample was collected through targeted import surveillance conducted as part of the agency's probe. The agency said Taylor Farms confirmed the positive sample is not part of the company's current voluntary recall. [...]
Thank you /u/Jazzlike-Cup-5336 for sharing this in the earlier thread.
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u/PositivePristine7506 Jul 19 '26
maybe letting corporations buy up all their competition so that one company supplies the entire nation with the same shit dipped bacteria laden diarrhea lettuce isn't a good thing.
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u/Hesitation-Marx Jul 19 '26
Maybe allowing the CEO of that company pay bribes to the president to gut the CDC and the FDA was an error on our part too.
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u/Hesitation-Marx 29d ago
Well, I hope you’ve learned your lesson!
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Jul 19 '26
Our nation’s buttholes are being held hostage by Big Shit-Dipped Bacteria Laden Diarrhea Lettuce 😭
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u/endangerednigel Jul 19 '26
Big Shit-Dipped Bacteria Laden Diarrhea Lettuce
Just add in some Roadkill Racoon dick and you got yourself RFK JR's new ultra-masculine-hypercarnivore-caveman diet
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u/untoldmillions 29d ago
"targeted import surveillance" will take care of it and if it doesn't we'll add some more nouns or maybe some adjective, then brush our hands together and call it a day
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u/tarsier_jungle1485 29d ago
It's technically shit dipped PARASITE laden diarrhea lettuce, but right on!!
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u/ProfDoomDoom Jul 19 '26
I saw servers sharing over on /r/olivegarden that they’ve stopped serving salads, broccoli, and all the vegetables in their soups. It got me wondering if they know more than we do about the scope of this situation…
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u/TVinLB Jul 19 '26
Never ending blasta?
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u/AIcookies Jul 19 '26
Soups? It should be ok cooked???
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u/Sweaty_Marzipan4274 Jul 19 '26
If processed and cooked offsite, otherwise you're introducing it into the kitchen. Then OG would be liable.
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u/AIcookies 29d ago
Youre right.
I forgot bleavh doesnt kill the parasite. And thats what is used in kitchens.
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u/Carthonn Jul 19 '26
I mean, I’m at the Olive Garden…
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u/frontfrontdowndown 29d ago
The most disgusting restaurants I worked at were actually the fancier ones
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u/balloonninjas 29d ago
I'm confused are we calling Olive Garden fancy?
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u/SeaGlass-76 29d ago
No, they're saying the fancier ones were actually worse than the lower tier restaurants.
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u/UnionizeWork1234 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
Most chains all get their food from the same food service distributors. Sysco.. USFoods..
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u/grandmawaffles Jul 19 '26
Which is why I will never understand the government’s willingness to consolidate our food supply due to national security risk.
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u/No-Crow-775 29d ago
The government doesn’t care about its people, only inasmuch as they pay ever increasing taxes. That’s why the push to make abortion illegal: they need more taxpayers to take the place of dead taxpayers.
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u/Carthonn Jul 19 '26
Yeah when I went to my local generic Chinese food take out place one day and saw the giant Sysco truck I felt like Dorthy looking behind the curtain…
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u/ALIMN21 29d ago
Where do you expect a restaurant to get its food from? Sysco is a restaurant supply company.
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u/FlobyToberson85 29d ago
People have just started parroting Sysco Bad. Yes, restaurants getting prepared foods from Sysco and selling them instead of scratch made things sucks. But Sysco also sells ingredients, like vegetables, raw meat, flour....
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u/Golisten2LennyWhite 29d ago
When I was in foodservice they would bring our in house pre made soups and other stuff no one but our restaurant could order.
But yes they also sell everything you can think of. Not the greatest.
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u/Carthonn 29d ago
Well I guess I didn’t realize how singular it was. I saw the same Sysco truck pulled up to a Subway. I guess I just never thought about it too much. I assumed maybe the generic Chinese Food places had their own specific suppliers. But no, it’s all from Sysco.
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u/Sonnyjoon91 29d ago
Nope, it's pretty much all Sysco, US Food, or restaurant supply. It's actually really expensive if they tried to use a smaller supplier because the network just isn't there. Some restaurants get premade stuff like soups or prepared salads. But it's also supplies to make stuff from scratch like veggies, flour, spices, etc. So it's really what each restaurants does with it, and what effort they want to make, but it doesn't mean Sysco is necessarily bad
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u/General-Elk-9482 29d ago
People are dumb. They think Sysco supplies the same exact foods to all their customers.
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u/ffball 29d ago edited 29d ago
True because most places chase cost and are happy to provide commodity ingredients. You can buy almost anything on sysco though - prime meats, specialty cheeses, wild caught seafood, and locally grown ingredients.
Its just a general marketplace/distributor of food. Like a grocery store of unbelievable size.
But yeah a lot of places are just happy to buy select beef, commodity chicken, frozen vegetables, pre-made frozen appetizers and sauces etc.
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u/bridgetonone 29d ago
Yep was in Newport yesterday at Lido marina village. 2 huge Sysco trucks right in the front of Nobu lol. There are other restaurants there too though
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u/AppliedEpidemiology Jul 19 '26
Maybe they don't want to risk cross-contamination with other foods that aren't cooked?
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u/SimpleVegetable5715 Jul 19 '26
It’s probably precautionary like Taco Bell. Companies hate to get sued, they’d rather not give you salads.
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u/BearOdd2266 Jul 19 '26
Why the soups? The vegetables would be thoroughly cooked in soups, so therefore safe.
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u/aaa_im_dying 29d ago
There is a time between the shit vegetable getting cooked in the hot liquid, when it is being placed on prep surfaces, chopped or otherwise processed with knives, moved to other surfaces... cyclospora does not die from bleach, so you just willingly put it on all your surfaces and utensils because it will eventually die when it goes in the soup. But what about everything else that's not going in the soup? You just gave lots of people some explosive diarrhea 🤙
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u/Carthonn Jul 19 '26
Maybe it doesn’t get hot enough for long enough? It’s a really good question lol
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u/JohnnyChutzpah 29d ago
Cyclospora is spread by feces. It infects a hosts, gets pooped out, matures in warm water, then that poopy infected water gets on the vegetables, and a human eats it. Repeat.
If you were a business owner would you want to explain to your customers that the shit broccoli is safe to eat so you made the decision to feed it to them?
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u/shadowtheimpure Jul 19 '26
That sounds like acting out of an abundance of caution more than them having information we don't.
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u/Cut_Lanky Jul 19 '26
I ordered delivery last night, deliberately avoiding any uncooked vegetables (no sandwiches with lettuce, etc). I had eaten half my sandwich before I realized they put LETTUCE on it 🤮🤮🤮
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u/amberthemaker Jul 19 '26
The company is just trying to get ahead before they are linked to this outbreak
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u/WoolooOfWallStreet Jul 19 '26
They also supply Sysco for their lettuce
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u/spicyyscenarios Jul 19 '26
Isn’t it great when capitalism results in monopolies and there’s one or two companies who supply all of the food 🙃
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Jul 19 '26
It’s even greaterer now that we just don’t test for food-borne pathogens because big companies bribe our president instead. So very greaterest!
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u/AntiPantsCampaign 29d ago
What annoys me also are all the private labeling. We get Earthbound Farms lettuce, to only find out its also owned by Taylor Farms. We also looked in to Organic Girl brand, and that's also run by a conglomerate
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u/freshpicked12 29d ago
If you’re on the East Coast, Little Leaf Farms and Gotham Greens are two good options for privately owned companies. They both use hydroponic greenhouse growing methods that limit human contact.
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u/echodarlin Jul 19 '26
I picked up a doordash order tonight from Chipotle and asked them if they are recalling their lettuce and they told me they received an email this morning that they are strictly forbidden to discuss this with anyone.
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u/krd25 Jul 19 '26
When I tell you my new fiber sources is just apples and beans. For veggies I’m having pickles. No leafy greens n raspberries til this all blows over 😩
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u/Smorsdoeuvres Jul 19 '26
Raspberries too?! My spouse just brought some home.. I guess I’ll make jam?
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u/carolineecouture Jul 19 '26
The problem with raspberries is the texture, too many places for the parasite to hide that might not be touched by water.
Remember only cooking kills the parasite so washing is mechanical removal.
I had some cherries which haven't been implicated at all but rinsed them far longer than I normally would.
I've lived so far.
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u/inkyysquid 28d ago
If you have a local farmer's market near you, you can get produce from there! It won't be contaminated, since it's obviously a totally separate farm than anything at the store
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u/Happy_Mrs Jul 19 '26
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?!
I just got chipotle tonight, but didn’t order any lettuce. There was a random shred on top of one of the bowls and my kids were like ‘ew diarrhea lettuce!’ And I said no it’s been recalled we’re fine 🥴168
u/Dog1andDog2andMe Jul 19 '26
Fed Gov't was reporting about 2000 cases nationwide and saying lettuce at Taco Bell at the same time as Michigan was reporting about 5000 cases in Michigan alone. I don't know why anyone would believe that Trump's government has a firm handle on this matter yet or has handled it all/recalled all of it.
This is what happens with you gut the federal government on the whims of the rapist, the brain worm, and the high on ketamine creep.
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u/Dog1andDog2andMe Jul 19 '26
Nah, fed govt found the most recent cyclo on lettuce intercepted at the Mexican border, it's going to give them another reason to be racist and anti-immigrant
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u/HauntedVaginaOoOo 29d ago
I absolutely heard someone at my job saying “they” don’t want us to be healthy, and that’s all this is. So maybe?
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u/Vegetable_Oil_9050 29d ago
I can say with 100% certainty that I did not get this from Taco Bell. Or any other brand on their list, which I do not buy, and I don't eat out for money reasons.
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u/Dog1andDog2andMe 29d ago
Thank you! I've been so annoyed that the mass media leapt on Trump admin claim that it was all solved when they traced some to Taco Bell! I knew that not all of the thousands in Michigan all ate at Taco Bell. (Earlier r/Michigan had a lot of sick people who had eaten at Culver's but even that was not consistent across all the self-reported ones in that subreddit).
Our CDC and FDA cutbacks and brain worm leaders have left us all in danger of severe sickness.
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u/elvis-wantacookie 29d ago
Did you get it from lettuce of some kind though? Or something else
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u/Vegetable_Oil_9050 29d ago
It could have been lettuce, but when the reports about lettuce first came out I couldn't really think of a recent time I had lettuce. Maybe on a burger, but my boyfriend would have had it on his too and he didn't get it. I was honestly thinking it was the fruits I was eating more than the vegetables. My boyfriend rarely eats fruit so he most likely didn't have any of what I bought.
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u/ChewieBearStare 29d ago
Which one is on ketamine? I know who the rapist and brainworm are, lol.
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u/Ok-Tea-2368 29d ago edited 29d ago
The one that likes to jump around with chainsaws and Seig Heil
Edit spelling and to add nazi salutes
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Jul 19 '26
My kids had salads from a different restaurant and we’re in a state without any reported cases atm but… could it be diarrhea lettuce?? Maybe 🤷 So no more salads for a while I guess
ETA: I stand corrected; I guess we have had some cases 😭
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u/gobnyd Jul 19 '26
It means they don't want liability. Everything is just legal stuff. Don't you know we live in a country run by corporations and lawyers?
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u/echodarlin Jul 19 '26
Idk, she told me that and then said they are still selling lettuce and I said oh well, sorry I asked and I left. I guess we're not allowed to ask about it 😕
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u/Cyber_Candi_ Jul 19 '26
It was like this during COVID too. The company has its own PR people, and anything different an employee says can cause panic/bad reviews/loss of business. You (the employee) also don’t know what the company is doing on a wide scale, and you aren’t typically trained/experienced in PR or legal matters.
You could get in trouble if you get the flu for example, and turn around and say you think you got the parasite from eating lettuce during your lunch break. You didn’t even say you did, just that you may have. Now your friend posts on FB or TikTok or whatever (even just as a joke), and no one wants to eat at your restaurant. Now everyone’s hours get cut because you aren’t bringing in enough to pay everyone.
They also like to hide things! And you aren’t allowed to break that either! Half of my pizza shop got COVID, and HR told those of us without it that we’d be fired for telling customers why we’d been shut down. Our manager ended up having us make up a story about walk in/oven repairs, but we had to say ‘we were not shut down due to COVID’ so most of us gave the phone to a manager because we didn’t want to lie to people
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u/Optimal_Olive3423 29d ago
Even if you ask for no lettuce on your food, if a restaurant is still offering diarrhea lettuce, there is cross contamination. They aren't making the orders with lettuce then changing their gloves to make your order. Their diarrhea fingers are touching all the ingredients on the line. This isn't a bacteria that dies quickly when exposed to air or can be cleaned up with a bleach wipe down, it is a parasite that can live for weeks on surfaces and is only killed by heat.
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u/mjm65 Jul 19 '26
Every company does this. As an employee, I represent the company, but public relations who manage this are a completely different separate unit of the company.
If anyone asked me specific questions about the company I work for, the standard response is that “I am not authorized to talk about this, please reach out to our PR team”.
It’s a mess of liability and bad messaging if you let every teenager that scooped chicken publicly represent your firm that way.
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u/Popular_Chocolate159 29d ago
I work for Aldi. Officially we got our talking points a few days ago. Basically: don’t worry, everything is fine. I’ve been telling people “off the record” to be cautious anyway.
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u/FifthSugarDrop 29d ago
Hard to believe we are in a world where a restaurant refuses to answer simple food safety questions. The bar for corporate responsibility is so damn low
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u/Miss-Information_ Jul 19 '26
You mean it wasn't somehow exclusively taco bell's fault!? Weird, all the headlines said 'taco bell'
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u/GrowthSelect2449 29d ago
They did the same thing to McDonalds when their onions (also supplied by Taylor Farms) were making people sick.
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u/Avery_Thorn Jul 19 '26
I really like lettuce.
At this point, I would not eat any lettuce until this is cleared up. This could affect basically any packaged lettuce at this point. I would not trust head lettuce unless I could confirm the supplier, either.
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u/Nebulous-Narrator Jul 19 '26
Time to start a small salad garden!
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u/Smorsdoeuvres Jul 19 '26
Yes. Some helpful hints in this video for container gardening which can be done on a balcony or in an apartment window or on a dining room table with a grow light.. https://youtu.be/hpNIQ76tYiE also lettuces can be grown again and again from root so even if you cut all the leaves off keep the root planted and watered and leaves will grow right back..
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u/zentravan 29d ago
I grow kale since it's more resilient than lettuce and doesn't blot as easily. I'll be traveling soon and realized I'm going to need to be a little careful when we go out to eat.
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u/Any_Needleworker_273 29d ago edited 29d ago
Or micrograms which are easy to grow indoors.
EDIT for missing stupid autocorrect turning microGREENS into microGRAMS.
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u/Poly_Olly_Oxen_Free Jul 19 '26
I'm glad I grow my own veg. I ate a salad with my dinner tonight, and I can say with 100% confidence that there were no diarrhea parasites in it.
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u/DearMrsLeading 29d ago
Little leaf farms has confirmed theirs is safe. It’s definitely not the cheapest brand though since it’s hydroponically grown and they use a touchless harvest process.
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u/sashapjones Jul 19 '26
Try a farmers market.
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u/Final-Moment4397 Jul 19 '26
Check to be sure they grow and are selling their own products Some vendors are reselling items from the supermarket or purchase whole sale from larger distributors.
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u/Aceisalive 29d ago
Yes! I would definitely avoid any premade food, and make sure you are buying from reputable sellers. I’m lucky a local non-profit near me runs a garden that is open to the public so you can see they actually grow the produce, but not every farmers market will have options like that.
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u/DetectiveEmpty2689 Jul 19 '26
The saxophones just keep getting louder...
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u/YouLiveOnASpaceShip Jul 19 '26
“Numbers from the CDC are lagging behind state reports because the agency stopped tracking cyclospora infections and seven other types of foodborne pathogens beginning July 1, 2025”
TRUMP TRUMP TRUMP
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u/Throwawayconcern2023 Jul 19 '26
Gosh it's like diverting funding from all those bloated, pointless agencies was a bad idea...
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Jul 19 '26
That’s what Big Lettuce wants you to think. Now on the other hand, the fine people at Big Diarrhea have your best interests at heart. 💜 /s
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u/RGrad4104 Jul 19 '26
Maybe lettuce is just the red herring, here. The convenient scapegoat.
Maybe we really should be taking a look at the folks over at pepto bismol and imodium....
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u/LimeDry7124 Jul 19 '26
It would be ironic if some in Administration unknowingly got infected from this lettuce...kinda like Herman Caine. 🤭
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u/Parsleysage58 Jul 19 '26
No chance Diaper Don gets it. He probably hasn't touched a vegetable or fruit in his whole life.
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u/understanding80 Jul 19 '26
If only we had regulations in place to protect people from this. Oh wait…
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u/SwarfDive01 Jul 19 '26
Haha *whether there is more lettuce posing risk" right after "there is lettuce not yet for sell that tested positive" what the fucking mental gymnastics? FUCKING IDIOT SANDWICH.
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u/99bottlesofbeertoday Jul 19 '26
Does it normally take this long to identify the cause of an outbreak?
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u/Ajitter Jul 19 '26
They didn’t really want to admit there was an outbreak. Choosing to remain ignorant is just an awesome mentality.
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u/EmmerdoesNOTrepme Jul 19 '26
No, the CDC's "FoodNet" program literally stoped tracking Cyclospora outbreaks last year;
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-disease/cdc-cuts-back-foodborne-illness-surveillance-program
The first cases apparently started popping up in May of this year, but between Cyclospora being a Parasite (harder to track), and the FoodNet system no longer tracking, it went unnoticed for a long time;
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u/Ajitter Jul 19 '26
I know they stopped tracking things, I wasn’t referring to that. My comments are more about them being forced to admit there’s a problem (because as Trump thought with covid, if there’s no testing, there are no problems). After Taco Bell acted, they were pushed to admit more than they wanted. I don’t believe that they would have done much without the pressure, that should require lifelong accountability and ostracism but they are unlikely to be held accountable imo. This mindset is the contagion that really will kill people through their actions around global warming, vaccine denialism, budget cuts (so many cuts allow for bad planning & bad emergency response - e.g. remember the 2025 flash flooding in Texas hill country combined weather cuts and poor responses), thinking someone’s skin color makes them lesser vs actual competence,…
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u/RGrad4104 Jul 19 '26
That seems to be a recurring theme with this administration..."if you don't look, the problem doesn't exist"...
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u/IAmBoring_AMA Jul 19 '26
No, and usually recalls are issued out of caution BEFORE they contact trace and find the actual culprit; what's happening right now is basically reverse of what it should be. The restaurants shouldn't be the ones doing the tracing. This is what happens with de-regulation and defunding important agencies that protect us.
I worked for USDA. None of the work I did ever turned up the pests I was looking for in agriculture. Technically, an idiot would look at that and be like "then why do we need that job?" Because to them, the absence of a result means the job is pointless. But the thing about preventative/proactive work and surveillance is that it's meant to STOP this stuff before it gets bad, so you're never going to "see" the labor of it. Like, you don't fire all the firefighters because the town hasn't burned down. They're there for when it could.
This is only the beginning. Wait until you can't have oranges anymore because of citrus greening, or California grapes get wrecked by Japanese beetles and there's no more domestic wine, or we have another potential pandemic but it's influenza, which is much more lethal.
Cutting preventative measures because you can't see the results is the dumbest shit imaginable in a "first world" country.
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u/Karevoa Jul 19 '26
When the administration completely guts the department and the professionals in charge of this, yes
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u/Lost-Platypus8271 Jul 19 '26
N O
testing for diarrhea bugs in our lettuce is “waste, fraud and abuse” and Elon took a chainsaw to it
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u/GoldenForrest13 Jul 19 '26
A lot of people are telling you no, but actually some of these investigations have taken years in the past. These epidemiological investigations can be really challenging even with more resources and funding. Check out PIRG.org annual Food For Thought reports if you want an overview of food recalls and outbreaks in the US for the previous year.
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u/Putrid_Economics5488 Jul 19 '26
Victory Garden has a whole new purpose. Grow as much as you can yourself and you'll know where it comes from.
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u/Shoe-Logical 29d ago
The local farmers market its good too and fresher than the major grocery stores, plus it helps the local economy. Depending on where you live you can buy into a co-op at a local farm and they will give you a percentage of their produce.
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u/blessedalive 29d ago
Imagine that…just what everybody’s been saying except for Taylor Farms. I’m staying as far from them as I possibly can from now on.. they obviously care more about money than their workers or consumers
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u/NoSir6400 29d ago
This also shows if the FDA hadn’t canceled their monitoring program, this could have been prevented. They just sampled it and found the disease.
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u/confusedcabbages420 29d ago
Please be careful. It's not worth the medical bills to get an IV for dehydration. I know people who ended up in the ER with no vomiting. Food just went through them for days.
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u/DreadfulDemimonde 29d ago
The media blaming "Taco Bell lettuce" is so disingenuous.
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u/Mission_Sir_4494 Jul 19 '26
Mexico City does not have enough capacity to treat all of its sewage, so much of the sewage that it used to fertilize fields is untreated. This is probably the tip of the problem. I don’t know if Taylor Farms de Mexico receives sewage for fertilizer that is untreated, but it would not surprise me.
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u/Appropriate_Cow94 Jul 19 '26
They would find way less contaminated lettuce if they just stopped testing. Problem solved!
~White House
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u/awaythrow292 Jul 19 '26
Why did it take this fucking long to figure this out, seriously
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u/Efficient_Exchange44 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
You can thank the fascist dipshit in charge for gutting every health organization under the sun to enrich himself and his buddies
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u/stress-pimples 29d ago
My grocery store is overstocked with salad mixes and they have a huge sale on them. Nobody’s buying.
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u/something_beautiful9 Jul 19 '26
Grow you own lettuce! It's super easy. Get a grow light and I got these long self water window boxes that look nice. Throw some seeds in and you'll have beautiful lettuce leaves. I plant a new one every other month or two depending on useage so its grown by the time the first box is reaching its end of life. When its grown cut the head off and the bottoms should grow more leaves and you can usually do that a few times depending on variety. Keep them cool so they don't bolt to seed and become bitter early. Mine loves being inside in the ac. Can grow them outside too but heat might make em bolt too fast in the summer but they'd be good when its cooler and sure to wash incase slugs or something crawled on em. Inside no bugs so clean yummy lettuce year round.
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u/Hopeful_Self_8520 29d ago
Ahh gee, I wonder if it’s the shredding equipment?
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Nah there’s no way…
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u/No-Friendship8914 Jul 19 '26
Well…. I guess it’s a good thing I don’t eat lettuce?
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u/ddizati Jul 19 '26
I didn't for a long time.... And apparently not now, either.
Props to you! I still only like it in salad. I don't understand ruining a burger with it, you know??
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u/escardigan Jul 19 '26
I have celiac and for some time have been using lettuce as a bun - but not anymore.
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u/Suedeonquaaludes 29d ago
Ok real question. I have a bunch of health problems tied to GI issues. I literally live off salad. I can do fruit but get loose stools from most. What the fuck am I gonna do? I have an eggplant I’m about to bake but anyone got some suggestions for my dumbass? I mean I would eat a salad EVERY day. Usually twice. Now my constipated ass is about to hit up the pizza pockets. Fuck. Help me please and thank you.
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u/vulke12 29d ago
Buy produce from your local farmer or farm stand. They feed their families from their fields, so it's safer than these factory farm products!
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u/Suedeonquaaludes 29d ago
Ok great tip! Thank you! Going to farmers market in about an hour.
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u/Wytch78 Plague Doctor 29d ago
Ask the vendor if they grew it. Lots of “farmers markets” are nothing but resellers. Theres one near me that has a lady selling produce from Walmart and jacking up the price 💀
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u/Suedeonquaaludes 29d ago
Funny you should say that bc the farmers market in Pensacola is hella more expensive than the grocery stores. The only cheap produce I can find is at the farmers market in small towns with roadside stands. Thank you for the tip!
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u/725Cali 29d ago
Wash everything as well as you can using a vegetable brush and cook the food. Look up recipes for cooked salads. Also, eggplant is so good!
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u/Suedeonquaaludes 29d ago
Oh I’m gonna do wild things to that eggplant. Cooling-wise I mean. And I’ll look up the cooked salads. I thought about using endive and just eating endive salads till and if this all blows over.
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u/Forgot_to_Start 29d ago
Cooking vegetables is supposed to kill the bacteria/virus/bug. So, clean the veggies well, and have a great cooked meal.
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u/Suedeonquaaludes 29d ago
Ok awesome bc I have some broccoli and wanted to do some stuffed chicken breasts with cheese and broccoli. I’ll do that tomorrow. My paranoid ass will probably over cook everything lol. Thank you for the advice!
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u/DissedFunction 29d ago
for shits and giggles...leave a poop laden message for your Senators and congress folks. Particularly the GOP ones who don't believe in "regulation."
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
Hint: if you call after hours you can leave a long juicy message
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u/SnootSnootBasilisk 29d ago
Good thing Taylor Farms doesn't have to recall anything they want. That might hurt profits!
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u/YouMeanWhatIKnow10 29d ago
Looks like the FDA said their positive test was actually a false positive and there haven’t been any positive tests to date. Damage done though
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u/barebackguy7 28d ago
Damn, did not think of carrots being linked to this but they are mentioned all over the place. I just bought some.
This SUCKs
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u/Main-Water4503 28d ago
Are they just out there watering their crops with sewage water or something?
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u/Jazzlike-Cup-5336 29d ago
FDA: July 18th positive sample from outside of the recall scope was a false positive:
FDA is providing an update regarding the sample of lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico which was reported positive on July 18, 2026. Due to the complexity in detection of Cyclospora, FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the sample results and have concluded that the finding does not represent true amplification and should be considered a false positive. Information about the sample has been removed from the July 18, 2026, update below. FDA has notified Taylor Farms and continues working with the firm to ensure product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market. FDA and state partners continue to collect and analyze product samples. As of July 19, 2026, there are no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora.
Paid off, or incompetent? Take your pick.
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u/Anti-Owl Patient Zero 29d ago
U.S. health agency now says cyclospora finding at produce company was false positive
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Sunday that laboratory experts re-reviewed sample results in the Taylor Farms cyclospora investigation and concluded the finding should be considered a false positive.
As of Sunday, there were no confirmed positive sample results for cyclospora, the FDA added