More than 2,600 Michigan residents are sick from a parasite in their salad, and the government agencies charged with keeping food safe still can't tell them which lettuce to throw out.
This is the one job — the bare minimum — that a food-safety regulatory state is supposed to do: keep feces-contaminated produce off American dinner tables. Instead, Michigan is recording cyclosporiasis cases at more than 50 times its normal annual rate, 31 states are affected, and no specific grower, supplier, or brand has been named.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced Monday that
