A regulator's Sunday-night reversal has thrown America's worst cyclospora outbreak in years back into confusion, and it has revived scrutiny of a seven-figure political donation made by the lettuce giant at the centre of it. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says a lettuce sample it had linked to Taylor Farms tested positive for cyclospora in error, undoing a finding announced just a day earlier.
The reversal has left thousands of sickened Americans without a confirmed source, and it has drawn fresh attention to a $1 million (£790,000) contribution Taylor Farms' parent company made to a pro-Trump super PAC in March 2025. Company executives insist the retraction is simply science correcting itself; critics online say the timing demands scrutiny.
