{"id":813642,"date":"2026-07-20T06:29:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813642\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T06:29:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T06:29:17","slug":"u-s-health-agency-now-says-cyclospora-finding-at-produce-company-was-false-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/813642\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. health agency now says cyclospora finding at produce company was false positive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said on \u200cSunday that laboratory experts re-reviewed sample results \u200bin the Taylor Farms \u200bcyclospora investigation and concluded the finding \u200bshould be considered \u2060a \u2060false \u200cpositive.<\/p>\n

As of Sunday, there were no \u2060confirmed positive sample results for cyclospora, the FDA \u200cadded.<\/p>\n

The FDA on Saturday had said that a \u200bsample of shredded iceberg \u2060lettuce supplied by Taylor \u2060Farms has \u2060tested \u2060positive \u200bfor the parasitic illness that \u200bhas sickened \u2060thousands of people in the U.S.<\/p>\n

The FDA, in its latest update said it has “notified Taylor Farms and continues working \u2060with the firm to ensure product implicated in this outbreak has been removed from the market.” <\/p>\n

Taylor Farms had \u200cearlier confirmed that the product was not part of its current recall, according to the FDA.<\/p>\n

WATCH | What is cyclospora?:\"\"<\/p>\n

What is cyclospora? A diarrhea-causing parasite<\/p>\n

A diarrhea-causing parasite has led to a growing outbreak in the United States that has sickened more than 1,000 people and sent dozens to hospital. As of Wednesday, multiple states had reported cyclospora infections, which can cause watery diarrhea, bloating, fever and nausea. While cases are common in the spring and summer, the current outbreak has led to an unusually high number, making it one of the largest the country has seen. No deaths have been reported.<\/p>\n

Taylor Farms was not immediately available for comment. <\/p>\n

Cyclosporiasis, \u200bwhich has been linked to shredded iceberg lettuce served at Yum \u2060Brands Taco Bell restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio \u2060and West Virginia has so far resulted in around \u2060100 \u2060hospitalizations and no \u200bdeaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

The \u200blettuce, which \u2060the FDA said late on Thursday came from Mexico, was produced as five-pound (2.3 kilogram) bags at Taylor Farms’ facility in Guanajuato, Mexico, a source told Reuters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-813642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}