Jeff Guo
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1,187 appearances
10 recordings
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 11 Sep
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So that is why, these days, there are basically only three salad processors that dominate the entire market for fresh chopped veggies.
The biggest one is Taylor Farms.
It started in 1995 by Bruce Taylor, a third generation lettuce producer.
And he began by supplying bagged salad to restaurants, especially to fast food companies like McDonald's.
To me, it's almost like lettuce has become kind of a widget.
I know exactly what that lettuce is going to look like.
I know exactly what it's going to taste like.
And I know it's going to be the same every time.
And here is how that business works.
Taylor Farms is a processor.
They're like the middlemen.
They buy lettuce from farmers, mostly in California and Arizona, but also in Mexico now.
And they also grow some of their own lettuce.
All that lettuce goes to one of more than two dozen processing facilities all over the country, where it gets washed, sometimes mixed up with other salad stuff, bagged up, and sent around to restaurants and stores.
Yeah, as bagged salad was taking over the world, we also started to see the rise of more and more food-borne illnesses.
Outbreaks like the one that's been all over the news this summer.
Some bacteria or parasite hiding out in the leafy greens and making people sick.
And Joe says staying on top of this stuff, that was a huge part of his job because, you know, it is in Taylor Farms' interest to keep its customers from getting sick.
And actually, our food scientist, Jim Gorney, he says when these big outbreaks first started to occur, they kind of took the experts by surprise.
Now, one reason is that scientists were just getting way better at detecting these outbreaks, seeing the connections between symptoms that were popping up in multiple different states.
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