Hello everyone! I'm Dr. Angela Anandappa, a food microbiologist and food safety scientist with more than 25 years of experience using data to understand risks to human health, foodborne illness, preventing foodborne illness, and helping companies make safer foods. I'm here to answer your questions about the safety of our food supply.
Proof:
AMA - Cyclospora — Alliance for Advanced Sanitation
Cyclospora isn’t a produce problem. It’s a human problem that produce happens to carry. But when there is an outbreak, it is difficult to take action when information is sparse, unspecific, and all encompassing. For example, the current outbreak has been going on since May with zeroing in on shredded lettuce from a specific company (Taylor Farms) distributed to a specific restaurant chain (Taco Bell) happening 6 weeks since the first case.
In this AMA, I will take your questions about why this happens, what you can do about it, why there are delays in communication and detection, and how consumers might make decisions about where to go for reliable information.
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