Lettuce Leaves a Trail of Disease: A Telling Tale of Convenience and Contamination The cyclosporiasis outbreak linked to Taylor Farms' iceberg lettuce in Michigan has highlighted the alarming reality that leafy greens are a major source of foodborne illness in the US.
The latest numbers put the outbreak at over 7,100 cases, but this is not an isolated incident. Leafy greens have been implicated in numerous outbreaks in recent years, including multistate E.
coli outbreaks tied to romaine and norovirus linked to an Illinois eatery.