Taylor Farms lettuce sample produced false positive for cyclospora, FDA says

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-says-taylor-farms-lettuce-sample-tested-cyclospora-produced-false-rcna588303

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Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Sure it did soon as they paid the bribe.

Akh@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 17d

The owner to Taylor Farms is a huge trump supporter

Ep1cFac3pa1m@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 17d (10 replies)

So is this legit, or did Taylor Farms just bribe the appropriate official?

TipRing@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 17d

They literally gave $1M to Make America Great Again, Inc. last year just after the FDA announced it was suspending implementation of the food tracing rule. So, yeah, they paid the bribe last year.

inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 17d

I mean it's the Trump Administration's FDA full of his sycophants so I would unfortunately have to guess that it's as legitimate as any other claim this administration has made.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 17d (6 replies)

The FDA said Saturday’s positive test was an erroneous result based on false amplification.

Sounds like someone in the FDA lab fucked up. Possibly any retests too, since I doubt they went straight from initial positive test to recall. What a shitshow. I wonder if it’s from inexperience or overwork due to cuts.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 17d (3 replies)

Like the trump administration’s statement is in any way dependable as truth

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 17d (2 replies)

You’re right, a gutted FDA couldn’t make mistakes. It’s probably a vast conspiracy that involves the very scientists racing to figure out the source of this also being complicit in covering it up.

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 17d

The trump gutted fda. No matter how it’s sliced trump is the failure

village604@adultswim.fan · 7 pts · 17d

Both a gutted FDA and a large company paying the Trump administration a bribe for preferential treatment are pretty equal in likelihood.

But considering this company has already paid a bribe to the Trump administration to get rid of food tracing rules, the conspiracy is probably more likely.

Without an independent lab verifying the samples, you should take the FDA's retraction with a pitcher of salt.

dreksob@feddit.online · 6 pts · 16d

Sounds like someone in the FDA lab fucked up.

Nah

Possibly any retests too, since I doubt they went straight from initial positive test to recall. What a shitshow. I wonder if it’s from inexperience or overwork due to cuts.

The FDA didnt mess up.

The FDA found the culprits, and then Trump was bribed to tell the FDA to find evidence that the initial test was a false positive.

wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 16d

So you're suggesting that the most rational explanation is that the FDA did the initial test, got a false positive, then presumably did it again, and got at least one ADDITIONAL false positive, for a protist for which the species in question is the only one in its genus which uses humans as hosts. The company found it so credible that they PUBLICLY copped to it, but then it turns out that it was ALL false positives? You're suggesting that that is the most likely scenario?

socsa@piefed.social · 3 pts · 17d

You know the answer

AuroraZzz@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 17d

I'm gonna go with somebody was bribed to make this happen

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Never buying their shit again. TF can go fuck itself.

ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 16d

Now we figure out how to find what products they sell.

Zier@fedia.io · 11 pts · 17d (1 reply)

Why did Taylor Farms not have produce tested themselves? We need a third independent testing to verify who is lying, the FDA or Taylor Farms. And if TF is a false positive, how did people actually get sick?

undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 4 pts · 16d

It’s a messed up world when we can’t be sure the FDA isn’t lying.

green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 10 pts · 17d

reddig33@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 17d

Well, if Taylor Farms destroyed a bunch of their lettuce based on the initial information from the FDA, I wonder if they have a good lawsuit?

Treczoks@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 16d

...shortly after the CEO had a meeting with Trump. Coincidence?

Arancello@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 16d

So I learned that the leaders of Taylor Farms went to the Whitehouse. After the meeting they are allowed to continue poisoning usa people. Hmmm. Read between the lines?

ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.net · 5 pts · 16d

After Taylor farms paid a visit to the White House and after a million dollar donation\bribe to trump...

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 17d

Okay then… where is the actual source?

SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 16d

Let's see Donald eating a Taco salad with Taylor lettuce.