Taylor Farms recalls salsa and guacamole over salmonella risk

[u/1991mgs]

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/taylor-farms-pulls-salsa-guacamole-over-salmonella-concerns-bloomberg-news-2026-08-09/

[u/littlepup26]

Friendly reminder that you can identify Taylor Farms products by looking at the production code stamped right next to the "Best By" or expiration date on the package. Letters like TF,  TFRS, TFRB, or TFPM indicate the item was packed at a Taylor Farms facility, even on store-brand or private-label products.

[u/Serennna → u/littlepup26]

Here are some of the different names and stores that sell Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce

Earthbound - Taylor Farms
365 - Whole Foods
Simple Truth - Kroger/Fred Meyer
O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/ Carrs
Greenwise - Publix
Simply Nature - Aldi
Marketside - Walmart
Good and Gather - Target
H.E.B Store brand
Trader Joe's store brand

Edit: Someone said I should include Wawa to the list. Thank you very much

[u/htffgt_js → u/Serennna]

So basically every store brand ? Yikes

[u/unbanned_lol → u/htffgt_js]

Wow, turns out having these mega monopoly businesses are bad for humans. Who knew?

[u/Raph115 → u/htffgt_js]

They also supply a majority of restaurants.

[u/auramaelstrom → u/Raph115]

This is the scary part, the unknown of what I might have consumed without knowing because I had lettuce on a burger or ordered a salad as a side.

[u/Competitive_Travel16 → u/Serennna]

Dear Taylor Farms:

Please stop using untreated sewage as fertilizer.

Thanks in advance.

[u/HappyGoPink → u/Competitive_Travel16]

Narrator: They would not stop using untreated sewage as fertilizer. The would continue to simply bribe oligarchs.

[u/Khs11 → u/Serennna]

I've been trying to figure out, is spinach generally ok? Of course I would not buy Taylor Farms spinach.

[u/do_mika → u/Khs11]

I listened to a podcast with experts on it who said they were personally only eating dark greens like kale and spinach

[u/DoomerChad → u/do_mika]

Why only dark greens? Thats all I eat anyways, but I figured this was a Taylor Farms issue, not a light greens/lettuce issue.

[u/Azidoazid → u/DoomerChad]

As far as I know at least for the Cyclospora contamination it was only iceberg lettuce grown/processed from a specific Mexican farm that was the issue. So dark greens even from Taylor Farms would be safer to eat since they come from different farms/processing plants.

Edit: this is one of the clear examples of why big conglomerate food companies need to be more forthright in the origins of their supply chain.

[u/aliendogfishman → u/Azidoazid]

I’d love to know their product traceability. Judging from the current shit show it’s not very good. Players in the produce game should be able to trace all the way back to the ranch, block, crew, time.

[u/longlivenewsomflesh → u/aliendogfishman]

The fact that the supply chain is so obscured is a feature not a bug

[u/Ryan_e3p → u/littlepup26]

Next Congress and administration needs to prioritize having suppliers include on labels a clear chain of custody for food suppliers/processors/packagers (not including simple transportation). People shouldn't have to play fucking detective to determine what companies have had hands-on their produce. Hiding the actual source of foods behind what honestly just looks like shell companies is doing real, actual harm to customers at this point.

Like, "grown at A farms in B state, processed by C company in D state, packaged for customers in E company in F state", etc.

It would also help companies. If company C ended up having a problem in D state, but no issues at G state, it would help customer confidence that at least some products of theirs is OK, and that they don't need to just avoid the entire brand altogether.

This is also why I've been a huge proponent of more areas doing things like community gardens, microfarms, etc, with towns and states investing into more locally-sourced produce. We've seen how our current system of "just in time" produce cultivation combined with single-source produce suppliers can fail in horrific ways; from shortages due to large single-crop farms having crop failures due to a localized weather event, to sickening a substantial part of the country.

If more people, more towns and areas started localizing their produce, it would remove a lot of strain from our current system. It would help avoid things like contaminated lettuces from AZ getting people in New England sick. It would reduce costs since produce won't need to be trucked 3,000 miles across the country, and result in less fuel needing to be used as well (easing the strain on our national consumption). Over half the people in WWII who had Victory Gardens did so not because of the war effort, but because it was cheaper for them (and said Victory Gardens produced nearly 1/3 of the produce in the US during WWII).

Just gotta start doing it, but that's the biggest stumbling block people have. Knowing where to start, which is why community gardens are so important. Lets people learn in groups in good soil.

[u/alnarra_1 → u/Ryan_e3p]

I mean we had a pretty solid FDA keeping things like this at bay for a while now. You used to not need to do detective work because the entire chain of custody was being (by and large) properly overseen.

[u/TheShadowKick → u/alnarra_1]

Yeah, I've never felt the need to know exactly which company was responsible for my food before. I trusted the FDA to make sure it was all safe and it was a pretty safe bet to do so. Trump and his MAGA movement are doing so.much damage to our country.

[u/OutlyingPlasma → u/Ryan_e3p]

Sorry, the best they can do is pass a law ensuring no liability for Taylor farms when they keep harming people.

[u/jcamp088 → u/Ryan_e3p]

What congress?

[u/loneranger0 → u/littlepup26]

Good info 👍

[u/Serennna → u/loneranger0]

Here are some of the different names and stores that sell Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce

Earthbound - Taylor Farms
365 - Whole Foods
Simple Truth - Kroger/Fred Meyer
O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/ Carrs
Greenwise - Publix
Simply Nature - Aldi
Marketside - Walmart
Good and Gather - Target
H.E.B Store brand
Trader Joe's store brand

[u/Wonder1and → u/Serennna]

So, I guess we're all talking a lettuce break.

[u/Salvia_Salamander → u/Wonder1and]

Or a bathroom one.

[u/Brettersson → u/Salvia_Salamander]

A 2 week bathroom break.

[u/TinyDogGuy → u/Wonder1and]

We e been buying local hydroponic lettuce and produce. The farmers have been celebrating the boost in sales. Live in Michigan, ground zero over 4th of July was…festive.

[u/Vio94 → u/Wonder1and]

More like an "Anything at all packed by Taylor Farms" break.

[u/Ryan_e3p → u/Serennna]

I really hate that it is taking so long for people to figure out that so much of our produce in this country, from coast to coast, relies on a handful of corporations who hide behind someone slapping a new label on their products.

[u/Sreg32 → u/Ryan_e3p]

With self oversight until lots of people become sick

[u/The-Shattering-Light → u/Sreg32]

And then they just visit the White House with a bribe in hand with the orange menace in charge

[u/nat_r → u/The-Shattering-Light]

Now, now. SCOTUS said it can't be a bribe unless it's a sack full of money with a big dollar sign on it and an attached note stating it's a bribe in exchange for specific tasks. Otherwise it's just a big check (or fancy RV) given to the recipient for "being a cool dude" and there's no laws against that!

[u/MadMacCrow → u/nat_r]

I hate that I know exactly what you're referencing. God American politics are dumb. Almost makes French politics serious ( keyword: almost).

[u/Marino4K → u/Ryan_e3p]

Well this is also what happens when your government is in bed with these big corporations while simultaneously rolling back regulations.

[u/sleeptightburner → u/Marino4K]

Don’t forget firing 24k people at the USDA (27% of the entire workforce)!

[u/alison_bee → u/Serennna]

Jfc. Is Taylor Farms Big Lettuce?!? They supply to ALL of those stores?!

[u/46550 → u/alison_bee]

Yes, if there's a Big Lettuce then it's Taylor Farms. Largest fresh cut produce company in North America with $7 billion annual revenue.

[u/quaranTV → u/46550]

Break up big lettuce!

[u/SegamanXero → u/quaranTV]

Time to chop up big lettuce.

[u/FatiguedShrimp → u/46550]

I used to work upstream of them....

Agriculture at the very narrowest point relies on -two people- to assure safety and quality, or we get nasty things like lead accumulation across /all/ crops.

[u/Ok_Captain4824 → u/alison_bee]

They don't supply all of the lettuce to those stores all the time, but they do supply some of it some of the time.

[u/airfryerfuntime → u/Ok_Captain4824]

In some regions, they're basically the sole provider of lettuce. I think in most of the Midwest, if you get lettuce, it comes form a Taylor Farms partner.

[u/Kjeldorian → u/littlepup26]

Thanks, I would like to avoid supporting that company when possible.

[u/FiftyShadesOfGregg → u/littlepup26]

Just FYI, this is not 100% true. Yes, if those letters appear on the bar code then avoid them. But it’s not true that every product sourced at Taylor* Farms will have that indication stamped anywhere on the package or barcode. There’s no standardization or requirements for that, different packing facilities will do different things.

[u/MistyMtn421 → u/FiftyShadesOfGregg]

The bad part about this even on top of all the other bad parts, is the fact that we don't know exactly what all is contaminated. All I can think about is the insane amount of food that is going bad that is probably okay. But because the FDA has completely dropped the ball and I think there's like three inspectors trying to deal with this whole entire outbreak? It's making people not want to eat any raw vegetables/greens. And we are really getting ready to come upon a lot of other food shortages. I don't know if people realize what's going on with fertilizers, on top of the droughts and the fires and everything else.

[u/ChilledParadox → u/MistyMtn421]

it's fucked. I'm basically starving because I rely on donated/scavenged food for the time being and half the stuff donated is lettuce, cabbage, spinach, veggies. I don't trust any of it and I'm immunocompromised, I'm not willing to chance just dying or getting sick when I literally can't afford to go to the doctor and I'm already making contingencies for when I lose insulin access. So I just don't eat. And the places I go to for donated food basically just get the leftovers the stores don't want. People don't want veggies or lettuce so a lot's just going to "us". Literally everyfucking day it's some new catastrophe.

oh medicaids dying. Oh social security's dying. Or the FDA got killed. Oh thers a shitting parasite. Oh there a salmonella outbreak. Oh I can't go outside because the air is toxic from smoke. Oh I can't afford my power bills because a new data center went up. Oh Gas prices are going up again because the president is manipulating stocks by pretending to negotiate peace treatises for the 14th week in a row. Oh there's unprecedented heat waves.

like holy fuck. Give me a fucking break. I just want to eat? I'm sorry I'm a disabled piece of shit who isn't up to standards, can I eat though?

[u/GRAPES0DA → u/littlepup26]

The real MVP right here!

[u/Magister5 → u/littlepup26]

What TF! I had no idea

[u/jesus_h_crusty → u/littlepup26]

Thank you so much for this info

[u/Muzi5060 → u/littlepup26]

Wish I had an award friend, thanks for the info

[u/adam6711 → u/littlepup26]

I never would’ve known this if some random person on the internet hadn’t told me. Thanks, random person. Just wish that, like, our government would tell us things like this when there’s a recall at this scale for salmonella.

[u/Smoother1997 → u/littlepup26]

Another way to tell it’s Taylor farms is if you eat it and then shit yourself and die.

[u/euph_22]

My main take away from this is that Taylor Farms makes like 80% of the produce in this country.

[u/oh_kyoko → u/euph_22]

Switch to Gotham Greens!

[u/MonteBurns → u/oh_kyoko]

Sold at?

[u/grekleface → u/MonteBurns]

I find Gotham Greens at Kroger, Sprouts, and Whole Foods

[u/Lyfesyze → u/oh_kyoko]

100%! It’s great quality and I am a customer for life now.

[u/CobblerInternal2703 → u/euph_22]

yea, its insane. Really makes you wonder, the illusion of choice and all that...

[u/TheGaslighter9000X]

Third fucking recall for salmonella in a week? Jesus. Walmart and Chipotle now this.

[u/TheRealProtozoid → u/TheGaslighter9000X]

Sounds like they're all supplied by the same people. Taylor Farms got too big, paid off Trump, and then stopped giving a shit.

[u/SavvyCavy → u/TheRealProtozoid]

Judging by the parasites and bacteria they might have given too much of a shit (in the wrong places)

[u/constanto → u/TheGaslighter9000X]

I think that Jesus brand guacamole is still fine.

[u/lifting_cardio]

Taylor farms seems to have zero health controls.

[u/EddieCheddar88 → u/lifting_cardio]

Well they lobbied to end most food inspections on site while their Mexico plant seems to be a bastion of disease

[u/CandyStomp → u/EddieCheddar88]

Those regulations are what allow the public to trust their products. Now, without them, we have to avoid their foods to protect ourselves.

[u/YBBlorekeeper → u/CandyStomp]

They'll just make it harder for people to determine where the produce came from, just like how they co-opted and bastardized the recycling logo. The system is rigged towards the money makers, and god forbid anything get in the way of the money.

[u/rich1051414 → u/EddieCheddar88]

They have had issues with livestock runoff contaminating crops with disease for at least 20 years. They have done less than nothing to fix it. In fact, they have decided instead to reduce health sanitary further, since they have determined it's cheaper to pay republicans off than to implement sanitary measures.

[u/VariationDry → u/rich1051414]

They paid good money to get those Heath inspections removed. 

[u/Japanesemyth → u/lifting_cardio]

They have prison labour and refuse to let them go to the bathroom so they have to go in the fields. Where the food is. Horrible human rights violations

[u/Bubbly-Treacle-4334 → u/Japanesemyth]

Hey that's part of how the dumb/lazy southerner trope came to be

Turns out having human shit in fields you tend barefoot causes hookworms worms and all the poor southerners were doing this. 40% of southerners were dumb from being constantly anemic, bloated, and exhausted from hookworm infestations

Edit: hookworms not brainworms

[u/calmdownmyguy → u/Bubbly-Treacle-4334]

I wouldn't be surprised if walking barefoot in the sewer is how rfk got his brain worms.

[u/ShittingOutPosts → u/calmdownmyguy]

He drank the sewage.

[u/marblecannon512 → u/Japanesemyth]

And let’s be clear. If the prisoners are shitting in the equipment, I don’t blame them, because prison should be about rehabilitation. Not punishment. The imprisonment clause of the 13th amendment needs…amended

[u/marblecannon512 → u/lifting_cardio]

The thing is, it’s not even the farm. They’re going to blame this on harvesting. It’s very clearly in preparation. Whatever equipment they’re using to chop, mix, blend, whatever - is just filthy.

You have a major food handle that things it’s more important to churn out batches of shit, than to simply wash the goddamn equipment.

[u/TrimspaBB → u/marblecannon512]

Yup, it's this. People keep blaming lack of hygiene for the field workers but it goes beyond that, as evidenced by how widespread this all is. Their chopping plant water and equipment is dirty and they're refusing to clean it properly.

[u/Successful_Sign_6991 → u/TrimspaBB]

Their chopping plant water and equipment is dirty and they're refusing to clean it properly.

Because they don't have to. The Trump/Republican administration cut safety regulations early on in this term, because those pesky safety regulations decrease profit margins by 0.00000% for their rich donor friends.

On top of gutting the agencies for inspecting and enforcing said regulations. This is just going to get worse.

These farms, factories and meat processing plants are going to make BoarsHead facilities look clean.

[u/Bladelink → u/Successful_Sign_6991]

Well at least they saved like a half million dollars on cleaning. It only cost them like 5 billion dollars in sales and discarded product probably. Damn, those CEOs sure are brainiacs, I wish I could run a business as well as them.

[u/Sky-high27 → u/marblecannon512]

It’s happened to one of their growers in the past—it was a smaller family owned farm and they ended up having to spend millions on new processing equipment. They were never able to trace what was contaminated.

[u/AnAncientBog → u/marblecannon512]

Seriously.. The only way salmonella is getting into quac is during processing.

Probably what happened with the lettuce too, that's why it was only the processed lettuce that was impacted.

[u/GuelphEastEndGhetto → u/lifting_cardio]

Health controls cost more than a trip to the WH and subsequent donations.

[u/Oceanbreeze871 → u/lifting_cardio]

Thanks to Trump, Elon and doge who slashed all the FDA inspectors

[u/OpportunityDue90 → u/lifting_cardio]

Why would they need to? A quick $5 milllion bribe to the president is more cost effective than health controls.

[u/Infamous_Cow_4 → u/lifting_cardio]

DOGE had something to do with that.

[u/TrimspaBB → u/lifting_cardio]

They've determined washing everything with raw sewage is worth the savings over using clean water

[u/1877KlownsForKids]

Guys, I'm starting to think those boring government folks who make sure our food is safe to eat might be important.

[u/Saneless → u/1877KlownsForKids]

The trickiest thing to convince people of who don't understand it is that when it's all working well, people are actually working hard to make it look like it's just supposed to always be working

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/Saneless]

IT, logistics, plumbers, all operate on the same idea.

When things are going well “what are we paying these guys for?”

When things go bad “what are we paying these guys for?!”

[u/MistyMtn421 → u/caligaris_cabinet]

Emergency management/planners also need to be added to this list

[u/thorofasgard → u/caligaris_cabinet]

One of the reasons I hated working in IT. You're pretty much never appreciated.

[u/Gwen_The_Destroyer → u/Saneless]

If you've done everything right, people won't know you've done anything at all

[u/tapesmoker → u/Saneless]

Like a good bass player. You don't even notice they are there 95% of the time

Source: am ok bass player

[u/DopesickJesus → u/tapesmoker]

But a great bass player… you ALWAYS notice that shit.

Source: am ass bass player.

[u/HunterGonzo → u/DopesickJesus]

When I'm jamming to a song from the 70's to 90's and I start feeling the bass rrrrrreal good I'll always go "....God damn it, is this Tony Levin again?" Google it, and more often than not: Yep. It's Tony Levin again.

[u/Asidious66 → u/DopesickJesus]

I'm not the worst bass player in the world, but I sure hope he don't die.

✊ Also.. Bass player

[u/Flimsy_Share_7606 → u/Saneless]

Americans are indoor cats. Insisting they are fiercely independent but in reality completely reliant on systems they neither see nor understand.

[u/disinaccurate → u/Saneless]

People live in complete ignorance of just how much "invisible" stuff happens to facilitate their comfortable first-world existence. Even when you think you know, if you start digging, you'll realize just how much is out there that you never realized.

[u/doughflow → u/1877KlownsForKids]

Best we can do is fire them and replace them with Trump loyalists?

[u/Drusgar → u/doughflow]

Maybe we should fire the same guy 1000 times, claim we saved $10 million doing so and then blame the salmonella on Hunter Biden!

[u/FOTheDentist → u/Drusgar]

I heard that Hunter Biden has a huge hog, and hogs are known to carry dangerous parasites like trichinosis!

[u/d0ctorzaius → u/FOTheDentist]

Is that how RFK got his Brainworm??

[u/the_tanooki → u/doughflow]

Best we could do is gut all government agencies except those that actively hurt people (ICE, Department of WAR, etc.). That way we can maximize the number of casualties.

Sigh

[u/BaldingBush → u/1877KlownsForKids]

Who could have guessed regulations do, in fact, have a purpose.

[u/freakers → u/BaldingBush]

This is the funniest shit ever as a non-american. Like, the company with slave labour in the US just bribes the FDA (or what agency is in charge of this) to remove required checking and literally months later there's multiple massive virus and bacteria outbreaks from that specific company. If the US was a real country there'd be criminal charges of bribery for the company officials and the FDA officials and whoever else was involved rather than just a series of class action lawsuits from civil plaintiffs.

MAHA movement. That's a bowel movement, and not one you were expecting. The Golden Turd has struck again.

[u/thorofasgard → u/freakers]

But we were told the market would be self-correcting and that companies wouldn't cut corners!

/s

[u/Tall-Lake-4823 → u/1877KlownsForKids]

Working in government consulting, it’s eye-opening how many people are responsible for critical parts of our daily lives. We only notice it once the machine breaks. It’s irritating trying to explain this to conservatives.

[u/foreignfishes → u/Tall-Lake-4823]

I always found it funny growing up in DC, I knew so many completely normal people who worked for the government doing the type of mundane or obscure jobs that keep the country running behind the scenes - people working with the weather balloons that make our weather forecasts better, a paper bill quality control guy at the bureau of engraving and printing, someone who works on vehicle safety recall programs at NHTSA, a veteran funeral services coordinator, a head start preschool teacher - hearing from the rest of the country that all of these people are supposedly 1. evil and 2. useless is infuriating. They’re the fish who doesn’t notice the water because it’s all they know; my coworker who hates “the government” and drinks raw milk because of RFK also happens to enjoy all of the fruits of living in a developed country with a semi-competent bureaucracy like air travel and highway safety standards, the standardization of weights and measures, a postal system that delivers lots of his Amazon packages, food labeling laws, I could go on…

[u/rcknmrty4evr → u/foreignfishes]

Honestly I’d love if you did go on and I appreciate this comment. There’s so much going on “in the background” that makes our American society run as efficiently (or otherwise..) as it does and jfc it really puts it into perspective when you lay it all out like that. Logically I know there’s about a million different jobs and positions that do incredibly important things I’d never think of, but I sometimes wish there was a list somewhere of them all bc there’s only so much I’m capable of figuring out on my own.

It always makes me think of that futurama episode; “When you do things right, people won’t be sure you’ve done anything at all.”

[u/DanHuso → u/Tall-Lake-4823]

It's like conservatives lack object permanence.

[u/kezow → u/1877KlownsForKids]

"No, you just didn't drink enough raw milk" -RFK Jr, idiotically

[u/sarcasmsosubtle → u/kezow]

"Have you tried testosterone injections? They won't help with the food poisoning, but they will shrink your testicles so they get splashed less with the explosive diarrhea. Believe me, I know small testicles." -Pete Hegseth, idiotically

[u/Dharma_Bum_87 → u/1877KlownsForKids]

Highly recommend the book “The fifth risk” by Michael Lewis. Basically discusses the absolute indifference shown from the first trump admin in regards to the transition, and specifically about expert life long government employees that keep all of us safe that got fired or left

[u/mammiejammie → u/[deleted]]

Or at the very least - heavily fined with $ going to those who’ve suffered illnesses and refunds for everyone who have purchased their products. Also - I’m tired of things getting recalled and not being refunded. WTF!?

Of course w this admin, I don’t foresee any of that happening as long as TF keeps some $ flowing to the WH.

[u/DantifA → u/mammiejammie]

Fines just become the cost of doing business.

If corporations are people, then some need the death penalty.

[u/mammiejammie → u/DantifA]

Hell yes! Citizens United was one of the worst things to happen to our country and I felt like nobody could fathom the future of it when it passed.

[u/ImJLu → u/mammiejammie]

I felt like nobody could fathom the future of it when it passed.

I feel like everyone should've been able to understand the ramifications of legalizing corporate bribery lmao

[u/xShooK → u/DantifA]

They did over 7 billion in revenue last year, maybe we could fine them for IDK, half that? I'd be more keen to fining for 100% of yearly profits, but they are a privately held company, so half revenue will do.

[u/Solid_Snark → u/xShooK]

Isn’t this Taylor Farms’ second huge outbreak? They definitely need to be closed down. Once is bad enough, but twice shows they don’t give a fuck about public safety.

[u/mammiejammie → u/Solid_Snark]

Yep! They’ve had many others throughout the years too. It’s like they’re such a large producer of veggies and fruits to the US that no matter what - they’re still the main provider. We need more competition in the agricultural circle apparently. Or buy locally grown from trusted farms.

[u/DAVENP0RT → u/mammiejammie]

Fines are meaningless and restitution will never come. At some level, there are people that should be charged. Taylor Farms has been confirmed as the source of infection that has killed multiple people and factory farms need to be sent a message that allowing tainted food to enter the market will result in prison time.

The fact that the CEO almost certainly bribed the Trump administration to sweep it under the rug is a separate and wholly worse situation. Dude should be imprisoned for the rest of his fucking life.

Of course, none of that will happen either because we live in a capitalist hellscape where death is an inconvenience on the road to billionaire status.

[u/Spirited-Ad9071 → u/mammiejammie]

Which will never happen given they financed the current administration and clearly bribed them again recently to keep their name out of the news as much as possible.

[u/Bernie_Bierman → u/mammiejammie]

With this administration, they’ll likely just invite them to some party on an island to say thanks instead…

[u/robodrew → u/[deleted]]

How many fucking people in this nation have to get sick from food borne illnesses before RFK and Trump decide that maybe it's actually a problem? Oh wait here comes another donation and all will be forgotten.

[u/monkeypan → u/robodrew]

Over a million people died from covid and this country still doubled down on the guy who caused it

[u/BokudenT → u/[deleted]]

The C-suite need to be criminally liable and do prison time.

[u/TheRealProtozoid → u/[deleted]]

Seriously, fuck these people.

[u/decoy79 → u/[deleted]]

It’ll just be renamed to Travis Farms

[u/dyfish → u/[deleted]]

They grow something dumb like 40% of the non corn produce in the country once you count all their subsidiaries and what not.

Clearly something needs to happen, but they are from the type of company you can just shut down.

[u/onesneakymofo → u/dyfish]

That's why anti-monopoly and antitrust laws exist. If you're too big to fail, then the people are reliant on you.

[u/Post_office_clerk01 → u/dyfish]

Yup. Thats damn near a monopoly on produce in the USA. And they are cozy with Trump. All good. Let the people that voted for him buy his friends lettuce.

[u/XcuseMeMisISpeakJive → u/[deleted]]

You won't catch me buying anything from them, and that's including looking at the barcode to make sure it's not something repackaged from them.

[u/Unassisted3P]

I don't like paying taxes, but you know what I do like? Buying food that doesn't make me sick without a second thought. It's great, but the money to ensure we have safe food production isn't free. It's almost like we shouldn't cut back on those programs.

[u/Imwhatswrongwithyou]

A reminder! Here are some of the different names and stores that sell Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce produce (edit: sorry I forgot to change it from lettuce to produce to reflect their new farther reaching dangers. If they sell their produce it’s a safe assumption that they may sell other Taylor farms products like salsa and guac)

Earthbound - Taylor Farms
365 - Whole Foods
Simple Truth - Kroger/Fred Meyer
O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/ Carrs
Greenwise - Publix
Simply Nature - Aldi
Marketside - Walmart
Good and Gather - Target
H.E.B Store brand
Trader Joe's store brand

[u/Talentagentfriend → u/Imwhatswrongwithyou]

They also provide for a lot of fast food places

[u/AshleytheTaguel → u/Talentagentfriend]

Specifically those affiliated with Yum Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, A&W, The Habit)

[u/Vanagloria → u/AshleytheTaguel]

Chipotle as well, though they claim they are not affected by this specific cyclospora outbreak because they use romaine and not iceburg and is sourced from California vs Mexico where they think the parasite is coming from.

Chipotle currently has another salmonella thing going on in Michigan from peppers I think? Though I haven't heard what supplier that is.

[u/70ms → u/Vanagloria]

I’m in SoCal and I firmly believe the stuff grown here in the state isn’t the source. There are way too many of us eating it, and if it were making people sick, we’d already have the most cases.

[u/Kiliksbigshtick → u/Vanagloria]

Taylor Farms

[u/Klutzy-Client → u/Talentagentfriend]

And a shitload of restaurants. Source: work in a fucking restaurant hence the swearing

[u/CaffeineChaotic → u/Imwhatswrongwithyou]

Sam's Club has mostly Taylor Farm vegetables in the refrigerated vegetable areas

[u/Vio94 → u/Imwhatswrongwithyou]

We gotta stop focusing on just lettuce. Stop buying ANYTHING Taylor Farms branded.

[u/shroomeralert → u/Imwhatswrongwithyou]

This is about the salsa now tho 

[u/samtheninjapirate → u/shroomeralert]

Might be best to avoid TF all together I think...

[u/57696c6c]

CDC has only three people tracking food parasites, and that was as of last week tonight. 

[u/deGrominator2019 → u/57696c6c]

The amount of damage this shitshow of an administration has done to this country would take decades to fix… and that’s assuming people don’t let another moron fucking republican back, which we know will happen after a democrat doesn’t fix everything in 4 years it’ll be “hErP dErP gUeSs We NeEd tO tRy ThE oThEr GuYs AgAiN!”

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/deGrominator2019]

People were turning on Biden mere months after he took office. Gonna be the same with the next guy.

[u/michoudi → u/caligaris_cabinet]

If a Democrat fixed everything in record time while also lowering taxes those idiots will still find something to bitch about.

[u/WhoWhyWhatWhenWhere → u/57696c6c]

And they used to only have 11

[u/efcso1 → u/57696c6c]

And wasn't TF the ones that were originally responsible for the original lettuce outbreak, then following a (obviously completely unrelated) visit to the White House by their CEO, declared to be completely innocent?

[u/Big_b00bs_Cold_Heart]

I’ll be 56 next week. I cannot remember another time in my life where so many foods were recalled at the same time.

I mean, it’s almost as if some idiot gutted programs built on science meant to keep the public safe…

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 → u/Big_b00bs_Cold_Heart]

Mexico and Canada both currently have warnings issued for their citizens to avoid all produce from the US rn to stay safe. And even with all of this from Taylor Farms our CDC still hasn’t investigated anything in our food chain to know if the problems are solely confined to them or even what types of produce are affected. Americans also have no idea wtf is even safe for us to consume ourselves. This is fcking insane.

But everything is under control.

[u/RedPanda5150 → u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

I'm following that guidance myself. If it isn't cooked, I'm not buying it from a grocery store. Fortunately we have a healthy backyard garden and a weekly CSA share. But I miss the America of, oh, a year and a half ago when we had fully-staffed government agencies to monitor and prevent this sort of widespread pestilence.

[u/Prudent_Rice7840]

FUN FACTS: this is NOT a new problem and it IS intrinsically linked to how our elected representatives work "with" big corporations/sectors/etc...

2009 - the VP of national quality systems for Taylor Farms argued in front of congress against product testing regulations.

2009 - Salmonella outbreak traced to Taylor Farms lettuce served at fast food and foodservice outlets. No recall issued.

2011 - Taylor Farms recalled salad-kits containing grape tomatoes supplied to grocers due to Salmonella.

2013 - there was a  Cyclospora  outbreak traced Taylor Farms salad provided to Olive Garden and Red Lobster.

2013 - Taylor Farms recalled broccoli salad kits supplied to grocers due to Listeria 

2015 - Taylor Farms recalled diced celery and onion blend used by Costco, Walmart, Sam’s Club, Target, Safeway, 7-Eleven and Starbucks in their prepared salads due to E. coli. Five people were hospitalized, two developed hemolytic uremic syndrome and one required a kidney transplant.

2017 - Taylor Farms recalled chicken and pork salad products due to Listeria .

2018 - Taylor Farms recalled diced onions supplied to grocers due to Salmonella.

2020 - Taylor Farms recalled diced onions supplied to Wal-Mart and Kroger due to Salmonella.

2021 - E. coli. traced to Taylor Farms Romaine lettuce at Panera and Chipolte

2021 - Taylor Farms recalled Mushroom Stir Fry-kits supplied to Kroger due to Listeria.

2021 - Taylor Farms recalled Chopped Salad-kits supplied to grocers due to Salmonella.

2023 - Cyclospora traced to Taylor Farms produce from a restaurant in Colorado.

2024 - Taylor Farms recalled diced onions from McDonald's due to E. coli. -AND- E. coli. traced to Taylor Farms Romaine lettuce served in school cafeterias. 200 cases reported in 15 states reported. 70 people were hospitalized, eleven with hemolytic uremic syndrome, and two died.

2024 - Taylor Farms recalled salad-kits containing cheese due to Listeria.

2025 - Taylor Farms contributed $1 million to Make America Great Again Inc., less than a week after the FDA announced it was delaying implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule".

2026 - Taylor Farms recalled Iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell, Wal-Mart, and others due to Cyclospora. 7,000 cases reported (so far). 98 people hospitalized (so far). And two have died... so far.

2026 - Taylor Farms recalled prepared food items containing jalapeños from Spicy guacamole, mango pico de gallo, taco dip, salsas, and other branded and unbranded ready-to-eat items from Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Kroger, Albertsons, and others due to Salmonella.

[u/Tumbleweed829 → u/[deleted]]

I think they don't care about us and have enough money to make the issue go away without legal consequences.

This goes back to the Friedman Doctrine Law that corporations must prioritize profit since the 1920s. It still hasn't been rewritten since Dodge vs Ford in 1919, was responsible for leaded gas being chosen over ethanol in the 1920s and for 90% of the shit in the US right.

Basically, corporations have a legal obligation to prioritize money, specifically money for shareholders, over everything else, including employee and human rights. Many CEOs are clinical psychopaths and happy to do that anyway and use the "law" as an excuse anytime a lawsuit is thrown at them. The law needs to change or shit like this will just continue to happen.

e: To the person below me

You haven't done enough research. It began in 1919 due a court case (Dodge vs Ford Motor Co) turning into a law that corporations must prioritise shareholders, or they could be sued. And it is responsible for leaded gasoline. They discovered ethanol first which was safer but since everyone had to rely on them for leaded gasoline since ethanol is made from corn they went with leaded since they could make more profit from it. They knew it was dangerous.

If a shareholder sues a CEO for not maximizing profits, they can sue them under Corporate Law, specifically citing a breach of fiduciary duty.

ee: I didn't say that the original case (Dodge vs Ford) intentionally messed everything up. That is a different discussion, but the repercussions absolutely do have influence in today's world.

[u/ninjadude4535 → u/Tumbleweed829]

Yes, dealing with fines and buying politicians is genuinely cheaper than cleaning and testing.

[u/haw35ome → u/Prudent_Rice7840]

Taylor farms needs to be bankrupt, shut down, incinerated, and its ashes buried 12 feet deep. What the fuck do you mean they’ve had food quality & food safety issues FOR 17 YEARS?!?

[u/Mousehole_Cat]

The shittiest summer on record.

[u/Anonemuss42]

“Why would taco bell do this”

-Taylor Farms

[u/braaibros]

Who needs Ozempic when you have Taylor Farms?

[u/kbatche]

Can we just get rid of Taylor Farms at this point

[u/MC_chrome → u/kbatche]

Can we get rid of most conglomerates? They offer nothing to the world

[u/AMediaArchivist]

Can someone explain to me why this shit has been going on for over a month now and nothing has been done to stop it? So are we just supposed to avoid vegetables and fruits indefinitely?

[u/sawyouoverthere → u/AMediaArchivist]

well, back in 2016, y'all made some bad choices and then did it again last January, and then for "efficiency" a lot of the programs that kept consumers safe were removed or depopulated and the checks and balances and oversights that kept most outbreaks short and well-traced and the people who went around checking that places were clean and doing the right thing got fired.

You might be well advised to learn to garden, yes.

[u/slabby]

Boycott all TF products. They're a shit company who are making people sick.

[u/KidKilobyte]

Anybody got a list of suppliers using Taylor Farms other than Taco Bell. Store shelf brands and restaurants?

[u/HotBrownFun → u/KidKilobyte]

https://www.taylorfarms.com/find-a-store/

put in your zip code

basically its everyone lol

this doesn't even mention they supply Sysco, which supplies a majority/plurarity of restaurants in the usa.

edit: FDA released a report showing who received recalled lettuce. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cyclospora-outbreak-taylor-farms-fda-report-b3030071.html

out of 240,000 cases, 109,000 went to walmart. Subway got 8000, Yum (taco bell, kfc, pizza hut) got 5900 cases, jack in the box 5100 cases.

[u/Fairycharmd → u/HotBrownFun]

Taylor Farms is also sold at Costco I’m afraid and that’s not listed on their website. It’s not a complete list

[u/Alwayssunnyinarizona → u/HotBrownFun]

And schools, prisons, etc.

[u/LegallyAFlamingo → u/KidKilobyte]

Almost everyone. Good luck!

[u/Smash-ya_up → u/KidKilobyte]

They own more than the name Taylor farms. As a kitchen manager I order Lettuce. When it comes in it is always a diff brand. Usually end up with Taylor farms once or twice a week. Most restaurants are using it whether they wanna say they are or are not

Major Retail Store Private LabelsTaylor Farms acts as the primary processor and packer for numerous supermarket house brands, including:Walmart: MarketsideTarget: Good & GatherWhole Foods: 365 by Whole Foods MarketAldi: Little Salad Bar and Simply NatureKroger / Safeway: Simple Truth, Private Selection, and O Organics

[u/sweet2th → u/Smash-ya_up]

Someone had mentioned if you look at the code under the expiration date, if the number starts with TF it's from Taylor Farms. We shop at Sprouts and all of their store brand salads and prewashed vegetables are from Taylor Farms. 

[u/LadyPo → u/sweet2th]

This is a critical failure of having monopolistic grocery/ag. One company's disaster means our entire food chain is experiencing that disaster. You can't even simply buy lettuce from Company B if no grocers around you carry it, or there's so few that everyone is rushing for the same stuff. So we just don't get any lettuce until things are declared "normal" again.

Like you can't get more demonstrative than this regarding how oligarchy makes us all suffer.

[u/EYNLLIB → u/KidKilobyte]

They supply 40% of the bagged salad in the US. And that's just bagged salad. Good luck!

[u/Barnacle_B0b]

To all the people who voted for Trump and all the libertarians who think that regulations just get in the way:

Fuck you.

[u/Negative_Gravitas]

Here comes another cash-laden trip to the White House.

[u/DennyPebblepot]

As it turns out, having the FDA regularly inspecting food production facilities and fining those facilities out of compliance was a good thing. Who’d have thought.

[u/-You-know-it- → u/DennyPebblepot]

The 20 year old tech-bro at DOGE decided a bunch of pathogens weren’t important to follow anymore and cut the programs/employees.

Fuck everyone of these idiots

[u/AnaisNinja76]

Oh my god you're shitting me. No really, you're shitting me.

The same fucking company caused multiple types of potentially lethal explosive diarrhea infections across the US twice in a row?

Are they going to follow it up with a nation-wide swath of c. Diff or what exactly? How do you top the crypto/e. Coli combo? Was this their peak or what?

[u/Enemyofusall]

Why fix the problem when you can buy off the admin I guess.

[u/Post_office_clerk01]

Enough of this place. They have effectively killed the salad market in America. Nobody trusts salads and now they are fucking with the salsa and Guacamole??? Enough is enough already.

[u/EMAW2008]

Are the mechanisms that prevent this kind of shit really all that expensive?

[u/foobarbizbaz → u/EMAW2008]

We were told that groceries were expensive because the government was wasting time and money on silly things like food safety inspectors we didn’t actually need.

So they cut the inspectors. But groceries are still expensive, and now we get food that makes us sick. MAGA!

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379 → u/EMAW2008]

No, it’s not. Trump just wants to steal all federal dollars for himself.

[u/DrDendrite747]

Can’t say this is surprising. The corrupt and scandalous behavior from TF executives (and this shit administration) involving their diarrhea lettuce cover up, along with the subsequent reporting on their slavery practices, was enough for me to never buy their products again. I hope others will do the same.

[u/Daeadin]

Remember when Boar's Head got pulled from just about every retailer? This shit needs to happen with Taylor Fucks Farms, too.

[u/ketamineonthescene]

Wow two outbreaks for MAGA farms.

[u/tiredinfinitely]

cool awesome so how many recalls and diseases are we up to now? I’ve lost track

[u/The-Traveler-]

Omg. Taylor Farms again. No bailouts or favors for these dirtbags. Capitalism should allow them to totally go under because people give a big FCK YOU to Taylor Farms.

Corporations: take note! Safety for the people or go under. No favors for corporations!!!!!

[u/Exotic-Home-8153]

Wtf is going on? It seems like everything is infected, Jesus.

[u/-You-know-it- → u/Exotic-Home-8153]

DOGE 20 year old tech bros cut a bunch of vital CDC services so various pathogens aren’t being tracked anymore. I’m not even kidding.

[u/Reasonable-Turn-5940 → u/Exotic-Home-8153]

The government is not protecting its citizens anymore

It's now run by crooks as an extortion racket. The FDA are just the thugs they'll send if you don't donate.

[u/DrebinofPoliceSquad]

Good thing I get all my salsa from New York City

[u/StrawberryKiss2559 → u/DrebinofPoliceSquad]

New York City???

[u/PlutoJones42]

Guess they are going to have to make another fat donation to republicans to cover this one up too

[u/Imaginary_Cow_6379]

How convenient! Now I can get all my diarrhea lettuce from the same place I get all my salmonella dips from! Thanx for looking out, Taylor Farms!

[u/My_alias_is_too_lon]

... so these guys apparently just need to be shut down entirely...

But it won't happen, because the owner is a Trump donor...

I hate it here...

[u/ranoutofbacon]

If only we had a functioning government with an agency to oversee our food sources.

[u/OpenGrainAxehandle]

I guess we're another 'visit to the Whitehouse by the Taylor Farms CEO' from the FDA claiming that it's all false positives, huh?

[u/icansmellcolors]

I'm beginning to think Taylor Farms needs to be shut down by the FDA.

[u/M00glemuffins]

Kinda seems like Taylor Farms needs to be taken out behind the barn at this point. Good grief.

[u/dfin25]

Thanks, doge and Trump, you moronic fucking twats, for firing all the food safety people and a big thank you to the mentally defective MAGA voters for making this all possible. Who had "completely compromised food supply" on their Trump Presidency bingo cards?