On July 17, Taylor Farms issued a statement that blamed a specific independent farm—less than one percent of the U.S. iceberg supply—for the outbreak. The recall was based on an FDA traceback, not a positive lab result, and that claim persisted even after the FDA retracted the initial positive test on July 18.

Within days, the company re‑drafted the announcement, dropping the farm reference, shortening the apology, and emphasizing caution. By July 24, the focus shifted to the company’s $200 million annual food‑safety budget and a top‑to‑bottom review of central‑Mexico production. On July 30, a Cyclospora hubাহী replaced the newsroom link, and a July 31 revision mistakenly added West Virginia to the list of affected states while the main distribution paragraph still omitted it.

The article also revisits the 2013 outbreak, when 631 people across 25 states fell ill. Investigators tied the illness to salad mix from Taylor Farms de México in Doctor Mora, Guanajuato, but environmental sampling found no Cyclospora.

Today, the hub reports that 2,000 samples collected in central Mexico since May have returned zero positives, and the FDA still has no confirmed product test result. The company’s statements have changed in wording, but the underlying substance remains the same.