FDA Retracts Cyclospora Finding in Taylor Farms Lettuce

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Mass layoffs at the FDA and CDC have gutted the very infrastructure that keeps food safe: lab scientists, outbreak coordinators and communications staff are gone. Inspection rates were already falling short of legal mandates, and state rapid-response teams just lost 60% of their funding. Fewer trained eyes on the food supply means more contaminated products reaching store shelves undetected.