Overview
- The FDA announced Friday that its investigators found Cyclospora in two environmental samples tied to Taylor Farms operations in Guanajuato: one from a wastewater tank and one from a farm drainage ditch.
- The agency closed its probe after saying the environmental findings add to strong epidemiological and supply‑chain data linking the summer outbreak to the Taylor Farms site, while also noting it could not determine how the parasite reached the lettuce.
- The CDC had declared the outbreak over on September 11 after about 12,883 confirmed illnesses, roughly 278–570 hospitalizations reported across sources, and two deaths among people with serious preexisting conditions.
- Mexico’s Secretaría de Salud and COFEPRIS say their laboratory tests of raw product, finished product and process water were negative and that the available evidence is not analytically conclusive to assign origin to Mexican products.
- Taylor Farms keeps the processing plant closed, blames an independent supplier it removed from its program, and the FDA announced stepped‑up surveillance, farmer outreach and other measures meant to reduce Cyclospora risk before the next season.