Taylor Farms lettuce sample produced false positive for cyclospora, FDA says
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... The false positive was discovered when the agency again reviewed the results of a sample from Taylor Farms de Mexico. It doesn't change the company's earlier voluntary recall. ...

The false positive was discovered when the FDA again reviewed the results of a sample from Taylor Farms de Mexico that was reported positive Saturday.

"As of July 19, 2026, there are no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora," the agency said in its statement. ...

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... "I've heard a lot of things about, Are people using human sewage as fertilizer?' I think just the conditions on the farms we need to monitor much, much more carefully," Neal Shah told "Katie Pavlich Tonight" on Friday.

Federal officials have said there is a link between iceberg lettuce from Mexico and the rash of stomach parasite cases across the U.S., but health experts, including Shah, caution there could be more than one food source that needs to be identified.

Shah said Americans don't know enough about how some of their food is grown abroad.

In some countries, he said, "humanure" is used as a fertilizer, especially with rising fertilizer prices.

In the U.S., treated sewage sludge known as "biosolids" can be used to "condition the soil or fertilize crops or vegetation grown in the soil," according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ...