Tossed Salad

“Larry Cox and his two sons run Coastline Family Farms, which supplies leafy greens to some of the country’s biggest restaurant chains and grocery stores. But this week, in the region known as America’s Salad Bowl, around 300,000 pounds of his romaine hearts were chopped and plowed back into the soil.” No produce grown in the US has been linked to cyclospora, but from farms to restaurants, the salad days have been tossed. WSJ (Gift Article): California Lettuce Growers Skip Harvest, Plow Their Crops Back Into the Ground.

+ And things could get worse. Michigan reports 2 deaths in cyclosporiasis outbreak.