What FDA actually wrote about Taylor Farms de Mexico in 2013, what FDA wrote about Taylor Farms Colorado in 2024, and why both were opened only after people were already sick.
And, although I looked, I could not find other FDA inspection reports – I assume they exist?
Taylor Farms has told the public this
Yesterday the FDA told the press, and then its own advisory, that a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico had tested positive for Cyclospora. Today the agency says it was not a positive at all. Citing the complexity of detecting this parasite, FDA laboratory experts re-reviewed the result
Sunday, July 19, 2026
Last Saturday this column was called Four Outbreaks, No Source, and a System That Would Rather Not Know. This week one of those four finally got a source, a company name, and a recall — and within seventy-two hours the government demonstrated exactly how little that accomplishes when there are
Joelle Mosso of Western Growers has written that this summer’s Cyclospora response exposed three major gaps in our public health system — risk communication, national surveillance, and FDA’s handling of imported risk. I have spent twenty years suing the produce industry, and I am going to say something that will surprise people on both sides:
Saturday, July 11, 2026
Four outbreaks, no confirmed source, and a national surveillance system now watching a fraction of what it did a year ago. That was the food safety week in America. A parasite most people can’t pronounce has sickened well past a thousand, a Tampa buffet was growing Listeria on its own counters
Go ahead and Google “Florida Man.” You’ll get a thousand headlines about the world’s worst superhero — a meme built on the idea that the Sunshine State is uniquely weird. What Florida is, is uniquely visible. The Miami New Times figured this out years ago: Florida’s open-government laws make arrest records easier to get
For two weeks I have been writing that the Justice Department quietly walked away from a criminal case against Abbott Laboratories over the Cronobacter contamination at its Sturgis, Michigan infant-formula plant — the plant where babies got sick, where at least two died, and where prosecutors reportedly believed they had the evidence to charge. Now
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On July 10, 2026, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare put out a notice telling anyone who got sick after drinking raw milk to see a doctor — fast, if they happen to be a child, pregnant, elderly, or immunocompromised. That’s the polite version. The blunt version is that
As of this week, the FDA’s own Investigations of Foodborne Illness Outbreaks table lists thirteen active investigations. In eight of them, the food making people sick is listed as “not yet identified.” Not a brand. Not a category. A blank. That blank is not a technicality — it is the difference between a family knowing
FSIS has a new pilot. The agency is inviting poultry plants to volunteer to measure Salmonella more precisely as birds move through slaughter and processing — either by biomapping the plant top to bottom, or by building a validated critical control point for Salmonella into their HACCP plan, quantifying and serotyping as they go.
