Cyclospora outbreak heightens food safety concerns

Was it a contaminated bagged lettuce mix that caused a foodborne outbreak that has now made 400 people sick in 16 states, including Minnesota? Or was it something else? More than a month after the first illnesses caused by a foodborne parasite known as cyclospora were reported in Iowa, state health officials there and in […]

Olive Garden, Red Lobster linked to stomach-virus outbreak – Orlando Sentinel

Olive Garden and Red Lobster, chains owned by Orlando-based Darden Restaurants, were linked Friday night to a severe stomach-virus outbreak that has sickened more than 200 people in Iowa and Nebraska. The Food and Drug Administration identified a prepackaged salad mix from Taylor Farms de Mexico as a culprit in the cyclospora outbreak, at least […]