The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce
About this episode
The episode discusses the recent cyclospora outbreak linked to contaminated lettuce and explores the U.S. food-safety system with expert Timothy D. Lytton.
This summer, the U.S. saw its largest cyclospora outbreak on record — with more than 22,000 suspected cases linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce, alongside a wave of other foodborne illnesses. Timothy D. Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University and author of Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety , joins Apple News In Conversation host David Greene to explain how America’s food-safety system actually works, how the system evolved, and what recent outbreaks reveal about the changes needed to make us all safer.
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