Cyclospora cayetanensis lives only in people. It reaches a lettuce field exactly one way, which is human waste getting into the irrigation water or onto the ground. That is not something lettuce does. It is something we do upstream of lettuce, and the record says so every time. FDA’s advisory changed this month from an onsite inspection at the processing plant to onsite inspections at iceberg lettuce growers in Mexico, which is the agency saying in public that the problem sits upstream of the plant. The 2018 romaine outbreak was traced to an irrigation canal in the Yuma growing region. In 2020 FDA found Cyclospora in a canal serving an Indiana farm that supplied a salad processor, though the agency said its genetic typing could not establish that the canal parasite caused the illnesses. The same Guanajuato facility sat at the center of a Cyclospora outbreak in 2013, and FDA’s environmental assessment then told the firm to determine whether the parasite was a reasonably likely hazard in that growing region and to re-evaluate the wash step. Stop eating lettuce tomorrow and every one of those water sources is still there, still running onto something somebody eats.
The Washington Post Says We Should Stop Eating Lettuce. I Have Sued Lettuce Companies Since 2000, and I Still Think That Is the Wrong Answer. The Illnesses Are Not in the Plant. They Are in the Water. https://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/the-washington-post-says-we-should-stop-eating-lettuce-i-have-sued-lettuce-companies-since-2000-and-i-still-think-that-is-the-wrong-answer-the-illnesses-are-not-in-the-plant-they-are-in-the-water/
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