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| Oct 2, 2026 | Cyclospora found at Mexican farm linked to lettuce outbreak, FDA says | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that its inspectors detected cyclospora at the Mexican farm blamed for the largest foodborne illness outbreak of th... |
| Sep 11, 2026 | US officials declare an end to record-setting cyclospora outbreak, but its origin is still unknown | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — The largest cyclospora food poisoning outbreak in U.S. history is over, U.S. health officials said Friday.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration offici... |
| Sep 9, 2026 | Cyclospora outbreak followed years of declining FDA foreign inspections | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nationwide outbreak of cyclospora tied to contaminated lettuce has heightened safety concerns about imported food, while underscoring a long... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Anna Claire Vollers, Stateline.org
Jalapenos. Frozen berries. Beef. Alfalfa sprouts.
A summer of food recalls, including the record-shattering cyclosporiasis outbreak tied to iceberg lettuce tha... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | 5 Things to Know
Warsh speaks from Wyoming, Old Navy’s new CEO, how Taylor Farms became so massive and more in Morning Squawk | This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.
Happy Friday. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an order that he said will rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America,” prompting some déjà... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | 🎥 ‘The whole system is now more investable’: Reservoir makes the case for ag robotics | When growers are testing new ag robots, they will usually tell you one of two things, observed Ben Palone at Western Growers at the inaugural Ruggedize conference at Reservoir Farms in Salinas: “They’ll say it’s alright, which means its wor... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | How Taylor Farms became integral to America’s food supply system | Taylor Farms, over years of acquisitions and investments, has become one of the world’s largest producers of fresh-cut vegetables and salads, and its reach has magnified foodborne illness issues.
Taylor Farms services some of the biggest gr... |
| Aug 28, 2026 | Produce lobby asks US agencies to quell fears hurting sales | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Jessica Nix, Bloomberg News
A major produce lobby group asked U.S. health officials to change how they communicate about a parasite outbreak that’s sickened thousands, citing battered consumer c... |
| Aug 27, 2026 | US officials tie cyclospora outbreak involving iceberg lettuce to 3 more states | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Parasitic illness cases linked to recalled iceberg lettuce have now been confirmed in 20 states, federal health officials said Thursday, expanding the scope of ... |
| Aug 25, 2026 | Cyclospora outbreak is crimping produce sales, data shows | Listen to the article 2 min
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The ongoing cyclospora crisis has had a notable impact on produce sales in the U.S. as shoppers shun salad mixes and kits to avoid getting si... |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Is lettuce safe? Probably. Will cyclospora spur change? Hopefully. (Opinion) | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Lisa Jarvis
For the last month, Americans have viewed their lunchtime salads or even a single, crisp leaf of iceberg on their burger as a possible threat. Could it harbor cyclospora, the explosi... |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Cyclospora is changing the American workplace lunch: ‘We switched our marketing immediately,’ says Saladworks CEO | The country’s ongoing cyclospora outbreak is changing a familiar part of corporate America: eating salad for lunch.
In July, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration linked a multistate cyclospora outbreak to iceberg lettuce sourced from centr... |
| Aug 14, 2026 | Jalapeño Recall Reaches Grocery Aisles: Whole Foods Joins 26-State Salmonella Cascade | By Morris Robinson
Published: Aug 14 2026, 9:30 AM EDT
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| Aug 11, 2026 | ‘Guac signal’ sparked Chipotle’s frantic bid to recall jalapeños | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Daniela Sirtori, Bloomberg News
The moment Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. figured out it was the jalapeños, its automated recall system began calling restaurants, again and again and again.
With di... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | U.S. Cyclospora Crisis Deepens: Deaths, Widespread Illness Expose Systemic Flaws | A deadly cyclosporiasis outbreak sweeps the U.S., claiming its first known American lives. Two Michigan residents have died. Thousands are sickened nationwide by the resilient parasite. Contaminated iceberg lettuce from a specific Taylor Fa... |
| Aug 10, 2026 | Taylor Farms recalls jalapeno products over salmonella concerns | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writer
Taylor Fresh Foods, parent company of Taylor Farms, is voluntarily recalling some products that include jalapenos because of worries about a possible salmone... |
| Aug 8, 2026 | Cyclospora fears lead consumers to lose their appetite for salads | Traffic to salad chains has fallen as consumers avoid greens due to the ongoing cyclospora outbreaks across the U.S.
Dollars sales of prepackaged salads has also plummeted, according to data from NielsenIQ.
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| Aug 7, 2026 | Foodborne illnesses are rising. What not to eat right now. | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
This summer has been particularly tough for foodborne illnesses, with reports of explosive diarrhea, severe stomach cramps, hospitalizations, and even deaths.
Not all reported outbreaks are nationw... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Sweetgreen cuts full-year outlook as cyclospora fears weigh on sales | Sweetgreen cut its full-year outlook as consumers’ cyclospora fears weighed on its sales.
The salad chain has not been implicated in the ongoing outbreak.
Other restaurant chains not linked to the contaminated iceberg lettuce have also seen... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | Cyclospora Kills Two in Michigan After Taylor Farms Lobbied to Delay Its Recall | By Donald C. Case
Published: Aug 05 2026, 11:14 AM EDT
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| Aug 5, 2026 | CDC expands largest known cyclospora outbreak to 15 states, Washington Post reports | The US CDC is expanding the ongoing cyclospora outbreak to 15 states, adding six more states to the outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday (Aug 4), citing three individuals familiar with the investigatio... |
| Aug 5, 2026 | 15 states now linked to iceberg lettuce cyclospora outbreak, CDC says | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MIKE STOBBE
NEW YORK (AP) — Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.
Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 sta... |
| Aug 4, 2026 | Michigan reports first US deaths in cyclosporiasis outbreak | A cyclosporiasis outbreak that has grown into the largest on record in the United States has caused its first known deaths, two people in Michigan, the state's health department said on Monday (Aug 3).
Cyclosporiasis, an intestinal ill... |
| Aug 3, 2026 | Michigan confirms first two deaths in cyclospora outbreak | Michigan health authorities said that two people have died from the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.
The Michigan Health Department said that both individuals had underlying health conditions.
The foodborne illness outbreak has sickened thousan... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Cyclospora outbreak has hurt Taco Bell but sales are already improving, Yum Brands CEO says | Yum Brands reported mixed second-quarter results and said the cyclospora outbreak linked to Taco Bell hit the chain’s sales in July, before trends started to improve.
Traffic to Taco Bell plummeted after the Food and Drug Administration lin... |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Between prices and a diarrhea-causing parasite, lettuce is causing hard times at some restaurants | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Business Writer
It’s been a choppy year for restaurants that lean into lettuce.
Lettuce prices rose sharply in the first half of 2026 due to hot weather in Arizona, where abou... |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Record Cyclospora Outbreak Spans 41 States as Key Federal Tracker Sits Sidelined | By Terrence Hill
Published: Jul 29 2026, 8:43 AM EDT
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| Jul 29, 2026 | Colorado has double its normal salmonella cases in July | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado has twice as many salmonella cases as in a typical July, and state health officials are trying to figure out if sick people had a certain food or restaurant in common.
The Colorado Departm... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Outbreak of diarrhea-causing parasite linked to 4 more states | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials on Friday expanded the scope of their investigation into an outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite to four additiona... |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Cyclospora outbreak tests RFK Jr.’s promise to overhaul food system, rebuild trust in CDC | HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to overhaul the U.S. food supply and restore trust in the CDC. A massive multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis presents a test of that promise.
Cyclospora is a parasite that’s tough to track,... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | RFK Jr. says cyclospora outbreak is ‘under control’ | Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday said that the ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis is “under control.”
Critics have blasted the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention f... |
| Jul 21, 2026 | 5 Things to Know
U.S. strikes continue, GM earnings, the latest on cyclosporiasis and more in Morning Squawk | This is CNBC’s Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox.
Happy Tuesday. JetBlue won the LaGuardia Airport slots left open by Spirit Airlines. I’ll be keeping an eye on whether it also moves to the a... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | The FDA made a big reversal in its cyclosporiasis probe, but it still thinks iceberg lettuce is to blame | The FDA’s investigation into the source of the cyclosporiasis outbreak is causing confusion as companies and consumers alike navigate new updates.
The agency said a test that indicated a sample of iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms was a fal... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | FDA still focused on lettuce supplier as source of parasite, despite faulty test result | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MATTHEW PERRONE
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials said Monday they remain focused on lettuce from Taylor Farms as the source of a multistate outbreak of a diarrhea-causing parasite, des... |
| Jul 20, 2026 | FDA retracts test result but still links Taylor Farms lettuce to cyclosporiasis | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| Jul 18, 2026 | Taylor Farms launches recall in 27 states after iceberg lettuce tied to outbreak | Please subscribe to IBJ to decode this article.
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| Jul 18, 2026 | Taylor Fresh Foods Recalls Iceberg Lettuce from Central Mexico Because of Possible Health Risk | COMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT
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| Jul 18, 2026 | Taylor Farms recalls iceberg lettuce in 27 states due to cyclosporiasis outbreak | Taylor Farms is voluntarily recalling iceberg lettuce in 27 states because of possible contamination with cyclosporiasis.
Before the recall, Taco Bell removed the lettuce from its restaurants.
Walmart said it has “removed four bagged iceber... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | CDC Links Record Cyclospora Outbreak to Taylor Farms Lettuce at Taco Bell | By Frederick Rodriguez
Published: Jul 17 2026, 11:22 AM EDT
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| Jul 17, 2026 | Foodborne illnesses at restaurant chains are rare but can sicken customers | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MAE ANDERSON and MICHELLE CHAPMAN, AP Business Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Big U.S. restaurant chains don’t get linked to foodborne illness outbreaks often, but the number of meals they serve causes... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Taco Bell says it has removed lettuce linked to cyclosporiasis outbreak from its restaurants | Taco Bell said it has removed lettuce that was tied to an outbreak from its restaurants.
The chain will likely recover soon from its cyclosporiasis scare based on how prior safety incidents played out, according to analysts.
The CDC traced ... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Lettuce at Taco Bell in 5 states confirmed as a source of diarrhea-causing parasite | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By BILL BARROW and MIKE STOBBE, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Federal health officials have identified lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations across five U.S. states as a source of a w... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | MiSalud Health: New Funding Raised To Expand Bilingual Healthcare Access Across North America | MiSalud Health, a bilingual health platform that integrates human care with AI to make healthcare more accessible for underserved workers, has raised a new funding round led by IGNIA. The round included participation from Redwood Ventures, ... |
| Nov 6, 2025 | MiSalud Health Raises New Funding | MiSalud Health, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of a bilingual AI-powered health platform, raised an undisclosed amount in funding.
The round was led by IGNIA with participation from Redwood Ventures, Amplifica Capital, and existing inve... |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Taylor Farms Recalls Being Named In Instacart’s Brine Boom Report As Pickle Craze Sweeps The Nation | Instacart's consumer insights report SALINAS, CA, UNITED STATES, September 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Taylor Farms recently earned the second spot on the bestseller list in Instacart’s new consumer insights report, The Brine Boom. ... |
| Jul 21, 2025 | Taylor Farms Awards More Than $650,000 In Scholarships Through 2025 Annual Scholarship Program | Over $4.7 Million in Academic Scholarships Awarded By Taylor Farms to Date SALINAS, CA, UNITED STATES, July 21, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Taylor Farms, North America’s premier provider of ready-to-enjoy salads and healthy fresh foods, prou... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Salad giant Taylor Farms acquires beleaguered AI-powered weeding startup FarmWise | California-based greens grown/salad producer Taylor Farms has acquired ag robotics company FarmWise‘s business in what the former said was “a natural fit for Taylor Farms as the company continues to adopt advanced solutions that benefit the... |
| Oct 30, 2024 | US health officials identify more E. coli cases linked to McDonald’s and inspect an onion grower in Washington | McDonald’s said last week that onions from the Colorado Springs facility were distributed to approximately 900 of its restaurants, including some in transportation hubs like airports. The restaurant chain announced that it would resume serv... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | Quarter Pounder sales to restart in US after McDonald's E.coli outbreak | NEW YORK: McDonald's on Sunday (Oct 27) said it would start selling its Quarter Pounder hamburgers again, after tests for E.coli came back clear.
Restaurants in a dozen US states had temporarily pulled the burgers from their menus last... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | McDonald’s Quarter Pounder back on the menu after testing rules out beef patties as E. coli source | The company said it removed slivered onions sourced from that facility from its supply chain on Tuesday. McDonald’s said it has decided to stop sourcing onions from Taylor Farms’ Colorado Springs facility “indefinitely.”
The 900 McDonald’s ... |
| Oct 26, 2024 | McDonald's E. coli crisis reveals why vegetable contamination is harder problem than beef | Retail & ConsumerProduct Liability
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| Oct 25, 2024 | McDonald's says its Singapore outlets not affected by US E. coli outbreak | Listen to this article
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| Oct 25, 2024 | At least 75 sickened as deadly McDonald’s E. coli outbreak expands | Taylor Farms said Friday it had preemptively recalled yellow onions sent to its customers from its Colorado facility and continues to work with the CDC and the FDA as they investigate.
“It saddens us to see the illnesses and affected indivi... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | Health | Colorado farm recalls onions possibly linked to McDonald’s E. coli outbreak | The one fatality was an unidentified person in Mesa County who had pre-existing health conditions.
Whatever companies supplied and handled contaminated ingredients could face liability.
A Colorado man, Eric Stelly, sued McDonald’s for a min... |
| Oct 24, 2024 | McDonald’s says onions from California grower linked to deadly E. coli outbreak | Officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not confirm that the agency is investigating Taylor Farms. A spokesperson said Thursday that the agency is “looking at all sources” of the outbreak.
In the meantime, other national re... |
| Oct 10, 2024 | AI Innovations: Specright and Recorded Future Lead the Charge in Specification Management and Cybersecurity | In the fast-paced world of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is the fuel driving innovation. Two companies, Specright and Recorded Future, are harnessing this power to reshape their respective fields: specification management and cyb... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | Specright Launches SpecGPT and SpecIDP, Bringing AI to Specification Management | New AI capabilities will allow supply chain professionals in packaging, product development, and more to interact with and interpret critical specification data and take quick action
Specright today announced new AI features within its Spec... |
| Aug 29, 2024 | The Bonduelle Group announces plans to sell its packaged salad business in France and Germany | BONDUELLE
Head office: "La Woestyne" - 59173 Renescure - France
Bonduelle a French S.C.A (Partnership limited by Shares) with a capital of 57 102 699,50 euros
Registered under number : 447 250 044 ( Dunkerque Commercial and Compan... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Call for Nominations: 2024 Rabobank North America Leadership Awards | Annual awards to honor top impact makers for industry stewardship, sustainability and innovation
NEW YORK, July 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Rabobank, a premier global food and agribusiness bank founded 125 years ago and a leading financier of ... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | TAYLOR FARMS PACIFIC RECALLS KROGER BRAND READY-TO-EAT APPLE WALNUT WITH CHICKEN SALAD BOWL PRODUCTS DUE TO MISBRANDING AND UNDECLARED ALLERGEN | Washington, D.C., March 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --
Taylor Farms Pacific, a Tracy, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 19,976 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) apple walnut with chicken salad bowl products due to misbranding and un... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Foodiverse Receives Investment from Taylor Farms | Foodiverse, a Spanish food company, received an investment from Taylor Farms, a Salinas, California-based grower and producer of salads, vegetables and healthy fresh foods.
The amount of the deal was not disclosed. This transaction, which i... |
| Mar 29, 2023 | Beyond price parity, CEA must focus more on consumer demand to truly scale | Peter Tasgal is a food and agriculture & CEA consultant and co-founder of Farmbook Project, based in Boston, US. The views expressed in this guest article are the authors’ own and do not necessarily represent those of AFN.
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| Jun 1, 2022 | BREAKING: FarmWise’s weeding robots haul in $45m Series B funding from Taylor Farms, others | US ag automation startup FarmWise Labs, which builds weeding robot Titan, has raised $45 million in Series B funding, it announced today.
Fall Line Capital and Middleland Capital co-led the round.
Taylor Farms, one of the top producers of l... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Fieldin acquires Midnight Robotics to make farm management more autonomous | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fieldin.
Digital ag company Fieldin has acquired Midnight Robotics for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will add a layer of autonomous driving capabilities to Fieldin’s sensor... |
| Nov 17, 2021 | BREAKING: Fieldin acquires Midnight Robotics to make farm management more autonomous | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fieldin.
Digital ag company Fieldin has acquired Midnight Robotics for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will add a layer of autonomous driving capabilities to Fieldin’s sensor... |
| Sep 1, 2021 | Fieldin raises $30m Series B to scale its specialty crop management platform | Disclosure: AFN’s parent company, AgFunder, is an investor in Fieldin.
US and Israel-based digital ag startup Fieldin has raised $30 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Fortissimo Capital, with Zeev Ventures, Icon Ventures, Ma... |
| Aug 25, 2021 | Agrifoodtech Digest: Cargill, Microsoft & Rabobank get in on the ag carbon game | Two of the past week’s biggest stories were AFN exclusives from the ag carbon market, both involving Microsoft: verification platform Regrow’s $17 million Series A round, and agroforestry startup reNature’s successful ‘harvest’ in Brazil. I... |
| Aug 24, 2021 | Taylor Farms Announces Investment with Pure Green Farms | |
| Jun 1, 2021 | Taylor Farms recognized with Supplier of the Year for Service and Partnership from Whole Foods Market | |
| Mar 29, 2021 | Taylor Farms Acquires FreshPoint Toronto | |
| May 2, 2018 | Soft Robotics Raises $20M | Award-winning industrial robotics company Soft Robotics announced today that it has raised $20M in an oversubscribed funding round. The new investors include Scale Venture Partners, Calibrate Ventures, Honeywell Ventures, Tekfen Ventures, Y... |
| Apr 18, 2018 | HarvestPort Moves Into Crop Inputs As E-Commerce for Farmers Broadens and Varies | HarvestPort, a San Francisco-based agtech startup, launched a new way for growers to get unique deals on crop inputs online today.
HarvestPort was founded in 2015 as a marketplace connecting individuals and businesses seeking to sell, rent,... |
| Apr 26, 2017 | Taylor Farms wants to make food without fossil fuels | As industries go, agriculture represents one of the worst environmental offenders, according to research by the United Nations Environment Programme. Farms need tending around the clock. So besides all the fertilizers, pesticides and water ... |
| Mar 9, 2017 | HarvestPort Closes $2.5m Series A with Cultivian and Taylor Farms | HarvestPort, the online farm equipment and services marketplace, has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Chicago-headquartered agtech venture capital firm Cultivian Sandbox Ventures. Existing investor Taylor Farms,... |
| Aug 18, 2016 | How Tinder for Tractors is Shaking Up the Agriculture Industry | We thought that might get your attention! No, it’s not quite what you think. But it’s close.
HarvestPort, a Californian startup, is matchmaking farmers to farm equipment that they don’t own and they don’t want to buy. And, like Tinder, it’s... |
| Jul 14, 2016 | More Technological Innovation Needed to Meet Labor Challenges in Californian Agriculture | Labor is the biggest challenge facing farmers on the West Coast of the US and they are looking for technologies to address this issue, speakers at today’s Forbes AgTech Summit told the audience.
“Labor will be the deciding factor for us and... |
