As health officials pointed to a Mexican processing plant run by Taylor Farms as the source of a parasite sickening Americans, the giant produce company rushed to defend itself.
The company said it recalled produce out of an abundance of caution, but also stressed that its own testing had found no signs of parasites.
That outbreak was in 2013.
In the aftermath of that case, the company’s CEO and founder, Bruce Taylor, criticized a “culture of fear” about food safety in an interview with CNN in 2015 and argued that America’s food system was “safer than it’s ever been.”
Now, more than a decade later, the same Taylor Farms facility in Mexico is once again linked to a much larger outbreak of the same parasite, cyclospora, which has stricken thousands of Americans and turned “explosive diarrhea” into national buzzwords.
