An informative and entertaining article from Dr. Robert Malone popped up in my email this morning. Enjoy!
By: Drs. Jill Glasspool Malone and Robert W. Malone
The Great Mystery of the Mexican Lettuce
FDA has finally discovered Cyclospora at the Mexican operations linked to this summer’s record-breaking outbreak: one positive sample came from a tank holding outgoing wastewater at the Taylor Farms de Mexico processing plant, and another from a drainage ditch at one of its lettuce growers.
Nearly 13,000 Americans got sick. More than 570 were hospitalized. Two died.
And yet FDA says there is still “not enough evidence to conclusively determine how contamination occurred.”
Really?
Cyclospora is a fecal-oral parasite. Humans are its known host. It gets onto food when human feces contaminate water or soil.
So somewhere between human feces, wastewater, a drainage ditch next to a lettuce field, and Cyclospora showing up in all, lies one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern food safety. The FDA still can’t quite figure out the relationship.
So we made the Venn diagram for them.
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