Taylor Farms cyclospora finding was a false positive, FDA says

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is now saying the samples of lettuce that were collected from Taylor Farms that were linked to an outbreak of cyclospora, should be considered a false positive. Initially, the FDA said Saturday, a sample of the Taylor Farms’ lettuce did test positive for the parasite after the supplier pulled all iceberg lettuce from central Mexico heading to the United States. A spokesperson for Taylor Farms said they were informed that the FDA had made a mistake, saying: "To be clear, at this moment, FDA has not identified a single positive product test result for cyclospora."Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says Texas isn't out of the woods yet when it comes to cyclospora. I guess the positive is it looks like the cases have tapered off. And we'll probably get through this," Miller tells FOX 4's Steven Dial. "But just caution everybody for there to be any kind of raw vegetable, fruit. Make sure you wash it well because it could possibly have some type
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