Taylor Farms said it will stop iceberg lettuce sales from central Mexico during a four-month period starting next year after a cyclospora outbreak. The company also closed a regional processing facility and cut ties with a local grower. The vast majority of Taylor Farms' lettuce is grown in the United States and Canada, so the suspension during peak cyclospora season is manageable, according to a company spokeswoman.
The FDA unveiled a 10-part plan to mitigate and prevent future cyclospora outbreaks, including working with Mexico to expand food safety education and training and expanding lab capacity in Mexico to collect, analyze, and process cyclospora samples. Meanwhile, the AI investment boom is serving as the primary driver behind a multiyear surge in global goods trade, pushing trade-to-GDP growth ratios toward levels last seen just before the 2008 financial crisis, according to new forecasts released Thursday by the World Trade Organization. If realized, WTO projections would leave trade volumes more than 12% higher in 2027 than in 2024.
Eurozone wages are not rising at a rate that would trigger inflation alarms, European Central Bank Chief Economist Philip Lane said Thursday, though annual inflation in the currency area rose to a three-year high in September.
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