Publisher's Platform: The FDA closed the 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak without naming Taylor Farms. Sixteen months later we are counting 18,000 Cyclospora cases

Publisher's Platform: The FDA closed the 2024 romaine E. coli outbreak without naming Taylor Farms. Sixteen months later we are counting 18,000 Cyclospora cases

On January 15, 2025, the FDA and the CDC closed the investigation into a November 2024 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in romaine lettuce. Eighty-nine people sick in fifteen states. Thirty-six of them hospitalized. Seven with hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is the clinical way of saying a child's kidneys shut down. One person dead. The agencies recorded the vehicle as romaine lettuce from a common supplier and published nothing further. No processor. …