Salad recall sweeps across 9 US states

[Mike Wehner]

• Pre-packaged salads are being recalled across multiple states due to an outbreak of a nasty parasite.
• The salads were sold under multiple brand names including Aldi and Jewel-Osco.
• The parasite, Cyclospora, and produce symptoms similar to the stomach flu or food poisoning.

Thus far, 2020 has thrown us some serious curveballs. It's been a rough six months for just about everyone, and now one of the things that have haunted us for years has decided to make its way to 2020 as well: tainted lettuce.

You'll certainly remember the lettuce recalls and warnings of 2018 and 2019, and now we have our very own 2020 version to deal with. This time, the CDC is warning that pre-packaged salad mixes may contain Cyclospora, a tiny parasite that produces some seriously uncomfortable symptoms. Multiple pre-packaged salads sold under a variety of brand names have been recalled already, and more may be on the way.

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