{"id":9431,"date":"2026-07-18T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=9431"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T04:22:16","slug":"taco-bell-reacts-to-cyclospora-outbreak-after-pulling-taylor-farms-lettuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=9431","title":{"rendered":"Taco Bell Reacts to Cyclospora Outbreak After Pulling Taylor Farms Lettuce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><strong>Taco Bell<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> is encouraging its customers to live m\u00e1s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Amid an ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a stomach bug that causes weeks of severe diarrhea, the restaurant announced it has removed lettuce provided by Taylor Farms from their stores after health officials linked the produce company\u2019s product from Mexico to the infection.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cWe take your health and safety seriously,\u201d Taco Bell shared in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tacobell\/status\/2078233668259307867?s=20\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">a statement to X<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> July 17, \u201cand have removed all affected Taylor farms lettuce from Taco Bell stores.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The company also encouraged its customers to return to its restaurants, adding, \u201cSo go ahead and enjoy your Taco Bell today. You always got us. We always got you. See you in the drive-thru.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The day before, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/US_FDA\/status\/2077944505987219592?s=20\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">warned the public<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> to \u201cavoid eating shredded iceberg lettuce from Mexico served at Taco Bell locations\u201d in Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Since then, Taylor Farms announced it has initiated a voluntary recall of \u201call iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taco Bell is encouraging its customers to live m\u00e1s. Amid an ongoing outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a stomach bug that causes weeks of severe diarrhea, the restaurant announced it has removed lettuce provided by Taylor Farms from their stores after health officials linked the produce company\u2019s product from Mexico to the infection. \u201cWe take your health&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/20260717\/0c5df9d7-3917-43ee-aede-8c37adb9090b_1784338138.jpg?fit=around%7C1200:1200&output-quality=90&crop=1200:1200;center,top","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}