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...
The Atlantic Says Our Summer of Contamination Could Have Been Much Worse. It Is Right. Put E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, or Listeria on the Same Lettuce and the Arithmetic Is Thousands in the Hospital and Hundreds Dead.

The Atlantic Says Our Summer of Contamination Could Have Been Much Worse. It Is Right. Put E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, or Listeria on the Same Lettuce and the Arithmetic Is Thousands in the Hospital and Hundreds Dead.

by | Sep 2, 2026 | Law

Daniel Engber’s piece in The Atlantic this morning, The Truth About American Food Safety, closes with the thought that our summer of contamination could have been much worse. He is right, and the reason is not the system. It is the bug. Cyclospora...