Lettuce Recall Based on False Positive | Irvine News

Presented by The Plant Daddies — rare specimen trees, living art, and hand-carved limestone vessels and fountains for extraordinary spaces. Showrooms in Los Angeles and Irvine. Listeners of Irvine News Today receive 10% off with code LANEWS10. theplantdaddies.com/lanews A major lettuce recall sparked by a false positive cyclospora test has left health officials scrambling — and consumers wondering if their salads were safe. Taylor Farms pulled iceberg lettuce from central Mexico after a lab result flagged the parasite, triggering a nationwide alert that sickened over 1,600 people across 34 states. Taco Bell and Walmart followed suit, removing implicated products as a precaution. But here’s the twist: the FDA retested the original sample and called it a false positive — no confirmed cyclospora found in any of their tests. The outbreak, which has caused nasty watery illness and hit some states like Michigan with over 5,000 cases, continues to be investigated — all while the initial scare may have been based on a lab error. Listen in comfort:Get a discount on a Soli Pillow: http://solipillow.com/discount/dnn. Advertise on DNN:[email protected] This is an automated, high-level news summary based on public reporting.Report issues to [email protected]. View sources & latest updates:https://sources.thednn.ai/48d047ed8b5e31b4