LatinNews Daily - 20 July 2026

*Mexico’s federal sanitary protection agency (Cofepris) and the national service for agrifood health, safety, and quality (Senasica) have announced that they are investigating an outbreak in the US of cyclospora, an infection which causes diarrhoea, linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. According to a press release, Mexican authorities have undertaken inspections and ​traceability analyses that “are strictly preventive in nature” and “aimed at mitigating any ⁠potential health risk”. On 17 July Taylor Farms, a US-based lettuce supplier, announced that it was “voluntarily removing all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico from the U.S. market, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Cyclospora” based on information from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, two days later, Taylor Farms reported that it had received an apology from the FDA, informing it that the “FDA made a mistake, and this was a false positive” and “at this moment, FDA has not identified a single positive product test result for Cyclospora”.

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