Overview
- Federal investigators have traced the largest identified cluster to shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms operations in central Mexico and the company issued a voluntary recall of affected lots.
- The FDA added Georgia, Tennessee and Texas to the lettuce-linked list on Thursday, bringing the lettuce-related outbreak to 20 states and 11,458 illnesses tied to those recalled products.
- The CDC’s broader surveillance shows more than 17,000 laboratory-confirmed cyclosporiasis cases nationwide with hundreds of hospitalizations and two deaths reported in Michigan.
- FDA teams are conducting onsite inspections and sampling at farms and the processing facility in Mexico while state and federal officials continue interviews and tracebacks to investigate other clusters.
- A Chicago couple filed the first Illinois lawsuit this week alleging illness from Taylor Farms‑supplied shredded lettuce, and the outbreak has already disrupted restaurant and retail supply chains and prompted wider legal and political scrutiny.