Weekend Wrap-Up: FDA Closed the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak on Record and the Jalapeño Outbreak on the Same Friday, Found the Parasite in Taylor Farms’ Wastewater. The Files It Left Open Carry 675 Sick With No Food Named. And CDC Counts 76 in the Alfalfa Sprout Outbreak.

Weekend Wrap-Up: FDA Closed the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak on Record and the Jalapeño Outbreak on the Same Friday, Found the Parasite in Taylor Farms’ Wastewater. The Files It Left Open Carry 675 Sick With No Food Named. And CDC Counts 76 in the Alfalfa Sprout Outbreak.

by | Oct 3, 2026 | Law

Saturday, October 3, 2026This is the thirteenth Saturday column. Last Saturday’s edition ran under the headline A Raw Milk Cheese Labeled as Aged the Sixty Days the Rule Requires Made Thirteen People Sick; its point was that the recalls were arriving...
The Washington Post Has Been the CDC of the Cyclospora Outbreak Since July. Lena Sun Had Taco Bell Two Days Before the Agencies Said It, Taylor Farms the Day Before FDA Named It, Nine States and Then Fifteen Before Any Federal Page Did, and on Friday a Number the Agencies Never Published. The Story Left to Write Is What Congress Does Before the Next Crop Goes In.

The Washington Post Has Been the CDC of the Cyclospora Outbreak Since July. Lena Sun Had Taco Bell Two Days Before the Agencies Said It, Taylor Farms the Day Before FDA Named It, Nine States and Then Fifteen Before Any Federal Page Did, and on Friday a Number the Agencies Never Published. The Story Left to Write Is What Congress Does Before the Next Crop Goes In.

by | Oct 3, 2026 | Law

While I was on a plane heading back from Norway, on Friday evening Lena H. Sun of the Washington Post reported that FDA had closed its investigation of the largest Cyclospora outbreak in American history: the parasite was in wastewater leaving...