{"id":246241,"date":"2026-07-17T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246241\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T23:08:08","slug":"produce-recall-issued-in-parasite-outbreak-hitting-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/246241\/","title":{"rendered":"Produce Recall Issued In Parasite Outbreak Hitting PA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taco Bell told the Post it would keep monitoring the situation and follow authorities&#8217; guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic health officials have not confirmed a link to Taco Bell or any specific ingredient, supplier, restaurant or retailer,&#8221; the company told the Post. &#8220;While authorities continue their broader review, Taco Bell has voluntarily and temporarily removed limited ingredients at select restaurants as a precautionary measure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Michigan, where cases have been concentrated, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/wwjnewsradio\/news\/local\/is-taco-bell-linked-to-cyclosporaisis-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">media reports<\/a> said notices were posted at some Detroit-area Taco Bell restaurants last week telling customers the chain was \u201ccurrently unable to sell Lettuce, Cilantro-Onion, Pico de Gallo, and Guacamole due to a nationwide recall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Michigan\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigan.gov\/mdhhs\/keep-mi-healthy\/infectious-diseases\/infectious-disease-outbreaks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">health department<\/a> said lettuce or salad greens are likely the source of its outbreak, but cautioned that it can\u2019t yet rule out any vectors.<\/p>\n<p>While the CDC has only confirmed 1,645 cases domestically, along with hundreds of other cases acquired abroad, state health departments have confirmed more than 7,000 cases since May 1 of this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taco Bell told the Post it would keep monitoring the situation and follow authorities&#8217; guidance. \u201cPublic health officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-246241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}