This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick
Mr. Lytton is a law professor at Georgia State University and the author of “Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety.”
There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea. Public health officials have reported more than 8,000 cases of the parasitic infection known as cyclosporiasis and initially concluded that iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms was the source of many of them. On Sunday, the Food and Drug Administration said that lettuce from Taylor Farms had produced a false positive test for cyclospora. The agency’s investigation and the recall of Taylor Farms’ iceberg lettuce from central Mexico are ongoing.
