FDA says Taylor Farms lettuce cyclospora test produced a false positive
The FDA backtracked and said "oh yeah we were wrong, the Taylor Farms salad was a false positive" I don't believe it. That's just the state of America right now, you can't trust anything :/
Lonewolfe1010 🧟♂️ Resident Evil: Requiem 🧟♂️19Honestly im not trusting anything right now. No greens for me lmao jkjk but yeah Its pretty wild!
Kapono13I went to get salad yesterday (I usually buy the locally grown stuff) and they pulled ALL the salad off the shelf :(
Arno 🏴☠️7"False positive"😕 ALL THAT PANIC FOR WHAT
Mystic Muffin 🧁6If you follow me from this I will most likely block you
Duelist1WHAAAAT….. I’M SO FLIPPING LOST BUT BRUUUH
This is what I have verified about Taylor Farms and this administration: 1. Bruce Taylor met with Trump on 07/16/26. 3. The FDA reversed its previous warning about Taylor Farms on 07/19/26. 4. Taylor Farms gave $1 million to Trump's PAC. I don't know when, but that's what got Taylor the meeting.
Mrs. Betty Bowers414UPDATE: On 03/20/25, the FDA announced it was pushing back the implementation of its “Food Traceability Rule” by 30 months. This would have made tracing cyclosporiasis back to Taylor Farms much easier. Six days later, Taylor Farms made a $1,000,000 payment to Trump’s PAC.
Baltimore Bob 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦53As soon as I saw the Fed Fools had walked back blaming Taylor Farms I knew the fix was in, the skids had been greased, money had changed hands.
singerindy.bsky.social38Mental note to never, ever buy #TAYLORFARMS products.
The Motley Beast24Taylor Farms has been the leading cause of explosive diarrhea for years! McDonald’s onions, the Chipotle fiasco. Yet, still business as usual.
AloneMrs18Taylor Farms made a $1 million donation to the Trump-aligned super PAC MAGA Inc on March 26, 2025. That’s just six days after the FDA announced it was pushing back the implementation of its “Food Traceability Rule” by 30 months.
Carol Norris18You know what to do, folks: #BoycottTaylorFarms
Pat Bagley19Taylor Farms is patient zero for the explosive diarrhea blowing through America
🇨🇦 andyrogers.bsky.social 🇨🇦35. Explosive diarrhea. Who needs Ozempic? Just eat your veggies, uninspected by any American agency, ignored by DHS, picked by exploited Mexican farm workers who aren’t allowed to use washrooms and have to shit in the fields. Taylor farms also linked to 3 outbreaks of E. coli contamination.
Mama Nichols2If this isn't illegal, it should be. People are getting very sick, over 7000 of them.
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That Cyclospora scare over Taylor Farms shredded lettuce? The lab result was a FALSE POSITIVE. FDA verified. Jeesh, let me guess…Trump has a big donor from Taylor Farms?
QuincyAdamsGhost25Bruce Taylor who made a trip to the White House Saturday.
K Wilde7They gave him $1 million right after they cut the oversight process. So, a post-deregulation bribe. A big tip, if you will.
Dyan London6You bet he has. Trump has received political donations from executives and the parent company of Taylor Farms.
Bill5Trump is Roy Cohning the Government. Deniable culpability. Now they have a Fed report clearing them of liability. Except States are testing too. And the truth will come out. But the damping effect will have reduced the financial liability impacts.
Marj Halperin❌👑5I get how bribes work with this POTUS. But how do FDA tests manage to turn up a “false positive”?! Did they do only a single test before making such a monumental announcement? Or are they throwing out a batch of valid tests as a big thank you to Mr. Taylor and big FU to the rest of us?
newmexicoflyfisher.bsky.social4Was the report written in sharpie?
BREAKING: The FDA just rescinded the only positive cyclospora test against Taylor Farms — the company at the center of the outbreak. They company donated $1M to Trump and just met with the White House 3 days before the decision. More here: www.edwardswire.com/p/trump-dono...
smiliano.bsky.social6They just want to kill us.
Tony H5Such an unserious county. Staggering corruption and dishonesty.
S Robertson Women’s Rights ARE Human Rights4So we can’t believe the spokesperson or persons in the FDA under Trump?
Sven Johanson 🇺🇸🏳️🌈🇺🇦3It may not be cause and effect. But let’s make the administration prove it isn’t linked.
Jonathan ❌👑🌮3Fine, if it comes from Taylor Farms, it’s potentially and most likely tainted and should be boycotted period.
Tammy E 🦋2I don't believe a word out of any one representing this regime. Taylor Farms will forever be on my do not buy list.
If you know you know37And just like that you have destroyed the credibility of the FDA. Institutional legitimacy is incredibly hard to rebuild.
Zoomer Antimillenarian19Third world shithole kleptokakistocracy, but in America
Mac5I trust my gut feeling.
Don Hasan5Holy fucking shit, man. A bribe. A fucking bribe. To erase something that is the concern of public health. This has to be the most corrupt administration in my lifetime.
It doesn't even matter whether this is true or not. The real news is that we can no longer trust our taxpayer-funded government agencies to tell us the truth. (Context: Taylor Farms is a big MAGA donor.) www.foodsafetynews.com/2026/07/fda-...
Andy Khouri14My very first thought was that they probably just bribed the president.
Smash MAGA!4"The FDA added that as of Sunday there had been "no confirmed positive sample results for product testing for Cyclospora." So, they just don't know at all how it's spread then?
Michael Love7I really hope Taylor Farms becomes a punchline now, would show that $1M bribes can't actually buy your way out of bad PR; I want an SNL sketch where 4 people are having lunch at a salad place and every 30 seconds one of them goes offscreen to make increasingly ridiculous bathroom noises
Topher Brennan (he/they)6Yeah we've hit the point where I trust Taco Bell more than I trust the FDA. (And I checked: Taylor Farms giving Trump $1 million has been reported in Forbes.) bsky.app/profile/brig...
Important context for the diarrhea outbreak is that usually most Cyclospora outbreaks do not get traced back to a specific source. They are difficult to trace due to long incubation period, short shelf life of produce, it's hard to grow the parasite in the lab, and its genome is hard to sequence.
Dr. Lucky Tran109Often cyclospora outbreaks resolve over time without even having a recall, so the fact that for the current outbreak there is an epidemiological link to a source (Taylor Farms) and there has been a recall, is decent progress, despite the confusing communications and political landscape.
Icagey4It's no different than any mass food borne outbreak. Maybe they can't find the culprit, likely human, but the government sure as hell can ID, locate & force removal... unless, of course, the responsibility is a million $$ Trump donor.
Kelly F2Good context. So, in normal times, what tends to be the outcome? Farmers/distributors see heightened scrutiny and become extra cautious for awhile? Or something else?
Phatty1With all these complications, how would it even be possible to determine a false positive?
newblue25.bsky.social1Cyclospora monitoring was specifically eliminated by trump.
Well, our feed is back to its regularly scheduled 💩. Culturing cyclospora on produce is very difficult. Even if a false positive is accurate in this instance, that doesn’t mean that Taylor Farms wasn’t responsible for the outbreak, though they’ll probably play it that way.
Alt CDC (they/them)40Fortunately, our AltGov fam has an FDA. What say you, @altfda.altgov.info? How sus is this?
C.D. Thomas10The head of TF visited the White House, last week?
Brian Wilcox8And there are reports that the owner of Taylor Farms has supported Trump, so that's a bit troubling and suspicious.
larry.earth (he/him) 86474This feels like a distraction. What is the state of FDA (or some other agency) monitoring? Is it intact? If it's degraded, how badly? Is anybody protecting us?
CJ3@matthewcort.land has receipts about TF and Trump
Nora Adams3Why was the result reported before confirming the positive?
Once again… Don’t trust a damn thing this administration says. Believe your lying eyes when you see thousands of cases of sick people nationwide. www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Anita9Safeways Signature Select Lettuce includes Taylor Farms. Steering clear of them is going to take some research before grocery shopping.
Clever User Name4I wonder how many millions of dollars it took to bribe the FDA to “reverse” their findings. I don’t trust anything this administration has to say. I am forever boycotting anything from Taylor Farms.
Marie G 💜OT⁷2They’re maga. Taylor Farms donated heavily to trump.
bluwatertom.bsky.social2Suuuuuuure it was . Wink wink 😉
elnoraoldschool.bsky.social2We can literally follow the bribe...I mean political contribution 🤬
Frank1FDA is the Most Corrupt Institution, next to Religions & Governments.
OMC Panda3Well, I guess I can order extra lettuce at Taco Bell now that it’s totally safe. But seriously, it’s funny that I trust Taco Bell more than the Trump federal government when it comes to food safety.
El Jefe De Security ("Retired" )3This after Taylor Farms issued a statement yesterday that confirmed they pushed contaminated product?
Grouchy Gramma2Common denominator from the affected patients? Taco Bell. Taco Bell concludes it's the lettuce, but people STILL won't eat there. So, FDA says, "oopsie! False positive!" New common denominator: Yum! Brand's contributions to Republican PAC's. Set up as "recurring" contributions. Suspicious.
The FDA apologizing for a “false positive” after Taylor Farms went to talk to the WH doesn’t erase the fact that nearly ~7,000 cases of cyclosporiasis have been confirmed. Trying to blame Mexico also doesn’t remove the responsibility a corp. has for the product it profits from
Roz 🌞 🌙 🌟7Stop buying any packaged salads. Go to farmers markets if you can. Earthbound farms is taylor farms. I couldn't believe the coop grocery store hadn't pulled these. Buy from local farms if you can.
ChristineAa5Executive Bruce Taylor and his wife donated $25 million to the pro-Trump PAC MAGA Inc. There is no "false positive," all there is is loyalty to MAGA donors. The rest of us can get cyclosporiasis. Trump only cares for his donors.
Bonnie Parrish-Kell4Not buying this "apology" or its reason...just like I'm not buying Taylor Farms products anymore. Truly sad cuz I love several of their prepackaged salads. Just won't risk family's health 🤢 for convenience.
Christina M2I'm sure their "false positive" apology is a reaction to outing a brand that has donated heavily to MAGA to get FDA testing reduced being outraged at not getting their return on their investment and facing a scandal. They were probably ordered to apologize and claim the brand is not the source.
Scotgirl721They’ve turned off their Instagram comments.
Hillwoman ❌👑1This is how we roll now. Blame others. I believe it’s taught in the bible. 😞
I’m starting to think Taylor Farms is full of shit
Cher5They should eat some of their own lettuce!🥬
The RedRoach2Don't blame a company for fuck over the poors and paying a bribe to the president to keep on doing it
UncleTifa2I'm starting to think you and I are the only sane ones Call me I have weed
imchuckmiller.bsky.social2There’s a diarrhea joke there somewhere, help me out
demswakeup.bsky.social2I suppose it is the exact opposite
Morning Chai Masala1I was thinking "in more ways than one"
So let me get this straight. Taylor Farms lettuce gets linked to the cyclospora outbreak. The CEO visits the White House and donates to Trump. Then the FDA says the positive finding was a “false positive.” Nothing suspicious about that at all.
T-Fish🇨🇦🍁4As with everything in trumpworld follow the money. Donors pay him and his administration looks the other way every time
Just Call Me Frank3Now I REALLY won't be buying their products again.
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eilrach.bsky.social1No; DOGE cut the funding for the DNA lab. 12 people to 3.
Susan1I’m never buying Taylor Farms lettuce again. I used to like their chopped salads, but no more. Convenience isn’t worth the Fascism!