California-based Taylor Farms possible source of cyclosporiasis outbreak
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Set us as preferred Public health officials are investigating a major California-based producer of pre-packaged salads, Taylor Farms, that supplied iceberg lettuce to Taco Bell as a potential source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak, sources have told multiple news outlets.The parasitic disease has made thousands of people sick with debilitating bouts of diarrhea this summer.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned the residents of the states of Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia against eating shredded iceberg lettuce from Taco Bell locations in their area; the greens are linked to the cyclosporiasis outbreak.
More than 1,600 sick people in this outbreak cluster, including 94 people who were hospitalized, reported eating at Taco Bell locations within the five-related states.Officials say they’re also investigating outbreaks and illnesses of the parasitic disease across 34 Midwestern and Eastern states that are unrelated to this outbreak.
Neither Taylor Farms nor the Food and Drug Administration immediately responded to requests for comment.In a statement, Taco Bell said it has “taken immediate action to voluntarily remove potentially impacted lettuce from a supplier in select states.The affected ingredient from our supplier is being indefinitely removed from our supply chain nationwide and will be replaced within 24 hours in select states.”The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration’s traceback investigation has identified the iceberg lettuce from a single supplier from Mexico.The announcement comes after public health officials investigated Taco Bell locations in the Detroit-area after the chain voluntarily stopped selling lettuce, cilantro, onion, pico de gallo and guacamole, “due to a nationwide recall.” The restaurant’s reported supplier of greens, Taylor Farms, is a global producer o...