Shredded lettuce supplied to Taco Bell identified as a source of cyclospora that causes watery diarrhea

A culprit has been identified in the cyclosporiasis outbreak: shredded lettuce. Oksana Karuniene/Getty Images The FDA has linked shredded lettuce sold at Taco Bell to the cyclosporiasis outbreak, a person familiar with the matter said. Thousands of cases of watery diarrhea have been linked to the parasite across the US this summer. Michigan, Ohio, and New York have been particularly hard-hit. They found it: guilty lettuce. On Thursday, the US Food and Drug Administration linked shredded iceberg lettuce supplied to Taco Bell restaurants in five states to an ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak , according to a person familiar with the matter. Specifically, shredded lettuce supplied by Taylor Farms and served at Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and West Virginia was traced back to a single supplier of iceberg lettuce in Mexico and was responsible for 1,644 confirmed cyclosporiasis cases.