Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says
Two environmental samples tested positive, and investigators said patient reports and supply-chain records strongly linked recalled shredded iceberg lettuce to the outbreak.
- On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration concluded its investigation into a summer Cyclospora outbreak, linking illnesses to recalled shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico.
- During the probe, investigators found the Cyclospora parasite at Taylor Farms de Mexico's processing facility and at a lettuce farm in Mexico, with two environmental samples testing positive.
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declared the outbreak over September 11, with 19,883 laboratory-confirmed cases of cyclosporiasis and two deaths reported by September 14.
- Confident that all recalled lettuce is off the market, the FDA announced a 10-point plan to prevent similar outbreaks ahead of the 2027 growing season, including expanded monitoring and grower outreach.
- Investigators could not definitively determine how contamination occurred, though the FDA traced lettuce to multiple Mexican farms and a processing facility supplied by Taylor Fresh Foods.
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Signage outside the US Food and Drug Administration headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, US. (Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on Friday it has found a potential source of the cyclosporiasis
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The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it had found two samples of the cyclospora parasite during its investigation of Taylor Farms facilities in Mexico, strong new evidence that an outbreak that sickened thousands in the United States this summer came from lettuce produced by the company.
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