Jesse Newman
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180 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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So it can be very serious.
So...
All this produce is being handled in a single processing facility, produced from many different farms, and then it gets spread.
You know, this processing facility, often they are supplying, you know, either restaurant chains or grocers in multiple different states.
So you get infected produce, and then it gets distributed, you know, pretty widely, and that's how you wind up with sick people in different states.
So the first work that they do is they do patient interviews, and they start talking to people, and they just start asking people, like, what did you eat?
And a lot of people reported eating at Taco Bell.
Then what did you eat at Taco Bell?
A lot of people reported eating...
menu items that included the shredded lettuce.
is not a shock because Taylor Farms is a giant of the produce industry.
And so for large restaurant chains, for grocery stores, they are tough to avoid.
It's based in Salinas, in the Salinas Valley in California, what we call the salad bowl of the U.S.,
and they make billions of dollars a year.
They make fresh-cut vegetables, salad blends, salad mixes in the grocery store, and they supply big restaurant chains, Taco Bell, McDonald's, and then they supply all the top grocers, Walmart, Whole Foods, Costco.
Many of us are encountering Taylor Farms each day.
when I asked food safety professionals was really twofold, was when there are big food safety outbreaks, you know, it is just by virtue of their size and scale, they may be likely to be involved in them because they do provide so much of our produce.
And of course, that's not an excuse.
We shouldn't have these outbreaks.
They said that a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms had tested positive.
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