r/YouShouldKnow • u/hardasjello • 5h ago
Education YSK: Taylor Farms Iceberg Lettuce is sold under many different names
Why YSK, Taylor Farms sells their iceberg lettuce to many food stores using different names and you don’t need explosive diarrhea.
Here are some of the different names and stores that sell Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce
Earthbound - Taylor Farms
365 - Whole Foods
Simple Truth - Kroger/Fred Meyer
O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/Carrs
Greenwise - Publix
Simply Nature - Aldi
Marketside - Walmart
Good and Gather - Target
H.E.B Store brand
Trader Joe’s store brand
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u/sunshineonmypussy 4h ago
This whole situation is very revealing. We think we have a choice but our produce is already so monopolized.
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u/Stickyv35 4h ago
It's not just produce, it's basically every industry in America. Anti-trust is all but dead.
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u/apocalypsebuddy 4h ago
You trace it to the top and see it’s all just a handful of corporations, and then the major shareholders of those few corporations are all the same too
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u/SoylentGrunt 4h ago
Conglomerates that aren't limited by pretend lines on a map. Countries are companies and politicians are managers.
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u/mrbananas 4h ago
And those same few shareholders are all part of the Epstein class who all believe they have enough money to do whatever they want to your underage daughters
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u/apocalypsebuddy 4h ago
Well, unfortunately it’s not just a belief. It’s clear that they can do whatever they want, they own the planet and always have, it’s just become larger scale like never before
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u/MaliceTakeYourPills 3h ago
Didn’t Lenin say this would happen?
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u/Ass4ssinX 2h ago
Very specifically did all the way back in 1916 with Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism.
Nothing has fundimentally changed in the dynamics since then. We can try to pin the blame on some modern laws or the loosening of them but this is just the natural progression of Capitalism.
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u/LD50_irony 1h ago
If folks are interested in this sort of thing, I have really enjoyed Worse On Purpose
As examples, his write-ups on Your Glasses Got Worse On Purpose and Your Favorite Brands Got Worse On Purpose are both excellent in a terrible way.
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u/poppin-n-sailin 4h ago
Not just america but most of the developed world, sadly.
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u/boot2skull 4h ago
Yeah the branding just feels dishonest. I’m sure they bought up local produce growers, but to keep the name to make it feel local or organic just seems dishonest. This whole time I’ve been wondering where the source appears to be, and whether my produce is grown at unaffected locations or not.
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u/intensebreathing 3h ago
That’s why, even though it’s often more expensive, I prefer buying produce from farmer’s markets or local grocery stores. You can at least talk to a person who knows where the produce was grown.
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u/CloudyTheDucky 3h ago
Fun fact, in several states EBT dollars are matched 1 for 2 if spent at the farmers market via “market match” programs
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u/chronicallyill_dr 2h ago
Hey, that is a fun fact. I hope lots of people that get EBT read your comment.
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u/Oregongirl1018 3h ago
I saw a video on reddit yesterday of a woman working at a local farmers market dumping Driscolls berries into a different container and selling them as locally grown. It's so hard to trust anyone these days!
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u/Any-Tomatillo2801 3h ago
Every farmers market I've been to in AZ has resellers not farmers. We see those restaurant depot, US Food boxes.
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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 2h ago
An absolutely bonkers amount of farmers market stalls are stocked from costco Walmart etc. it's not conducive to how farms work. fields nature all at once but at a market stall you can't have 10,000 lbs of strawberries one week and nothing the rest of the season.
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u/stevez_86 4h ago
The problem with all of this kind of crop going on a supply chain. It all could go through a single point where contamination could have occured. If Taylor Farms owns the step of the process where they collect and clean and grade the product, then it could be lettuce from countless sources that is tainted. And if they weren't tracking what was going in and out, then they don't know what brands are affected, because it could be all brands.
They don't have a way of knowing what vegetation was contaminated. And they are probably delaying the facility inspections as long as possible.
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u/cogman10 4h ago
Which is exactly why the USDA and FDA exist and should be funded to do this job. It's ridiculous it's taken this long to track the source and this is ultimately a regulatory and executive branch failure.
The FDA, in particular, probably should be split into 2 organizations anyways. There should be a food safety organization like the USDA (in fact, it wouldn't be horrible if the USDA took on the FDA's role in general food safety).
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u/EFCF 3h ago
Gee it's almost like cutting CDC funding for food safety monitoring (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/well/cdc-foodnet.html) and delaying a "food traceability" rule the FDA wanted to implement from now, until 2028 (https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-modernization-act-fsma/fsma-final-rule-requirements-additional-traceability-records-certain-foods), were bad ideas!
More people need to be aware of all the ways - there are MANY - the current administration are screwing us in our every day lives.
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u/mst3k_42 3h ago
All of the local farmers here are making a killing on touting their produce being grown right here and explosive diarrhea free.
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u/baskaat 3h ago
Good! It’s sad though that so many people don’t have access to locally grown produce. I live in a fairly large city in South Florida, our only “farmers market“ just basically resells the exact same things I buy at the grocery store. Their “farmers market” label is more of a gimmick than an actual business model.
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u/Gloomy_Fig2138 3h ago
The ghost of Upton Sinclair was already furious. He expected readers to be more concerned with the workers’ plight in the novel.
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u/Timoruz 4h ago
I really want there to be a law where the parent company of a product needs to be displayed just as obviously as the name brand, rather than small text on the back.
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u/aarontminded 3h ago
I believe it’s more formally referred to as “The Illusion of Choice”.
e.g. almost every cereal brand is owned by the same conglomerate. Applied to most other things.There’s some really interesting psychology behind it; when we’re presented with so many options our brain bypasses the “do I want cereal” and goes to “what cereal do I want.”
Then you add in brands tailored to different themes and genres and niches with minimal changes outside of the label.
It’s all the same crap
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u/Death4Free 3h ago
Exactly. All of our food is basically centralized in America. We learned in my biowarfare class, that a biological attack into our food system, be it an industrial farm or one of our food warehousing hubs, would easily spread across a region or nationally without much we could do about it.
That’s the problem with having our food supply being so centralized and wide reaching nationally. I don’t want to say more to give any ideas. But it’s crazy how we’ve allowed such an oversight.
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u/dboy120 4h ago
My hope is that Taylor Farms will be absolutely decimated by this, but realistically the only thing that’s going to hurt is retail sales for their own branded products, their claws are too deep in the restaurant industry. What I know for a fact is that they won’t improve their inspection process or working conditions by a millimeter.
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u/ThoriatedFlash 3h ago
Exactly why things have gotten so bad. When we stop buying a brand for whatever reason, many of the other brands are owned by the same super corporation. Companies are not worried about losing customers when they lower the quality of their product or price gouge anymore, and consumer protections from the government are essentially non existent. We really need another president who will break up these massive corporations like in the past, but unfortunately corporations now control the government, at least in the US.
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u/flintlock0 3h ago
Same thing happened with the Formula a couple of years ago.
And eggs during the Bird Flu stuff over a year ago.
Why is all the stuff in the aisle affected? Because it’s the illusion of choice.
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u/harlot_x 5h ago
Thanks for putting this out there; in general, a lot of people don’t realize that the cheap store-brand and the high dollar name-brand are very often the same exact product from the same exact manufacturer/farm/etc.
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u/MattMercersBracelets 4h ago
It’s called co-packing and all the major suppliers do it for big grocery stores
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u/MarineMirage 4h ago
Well, not the exact same in all cases. Nicer stores do tend to get the higher graded produce of the harvest.
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u/slayerhk47 2h ago
Yeah it might go through the same factory, but that doesn’t mean it’s the exact same end product or quality.
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u/Pretty_Frosting_2588 3h ago
Happened for a long time as well. In early 90s my friends dad worked for hostess/wonderbread and his boss paid my friend and I ten bucks to take bread out of the expensive stuff and put it in a store brand package then they loaded it on the bread truck to be delivered
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u/BrewerAndHalosFan 10m ago
I worked for a manufacturer that manufactured white and private labeled food as well as food for the actual name brand.
Often they are the same manufacturer and facility, but the name brand has a higher standard. We were creating a new-to-us kind of food and we could not reach the consistency we wanted, but the grocery store thought it was good enough so that was actually sold for like 6 months before our own product hit the shelves.
Other times they are the exact same (once we figured it out, both us and grocery store brand were the same product).
Other people I worked with that worked for other places said that neither case was uncommon
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u/Waldo_Wadlo 5h ago
They also supply Sysco, who controls about 20% of the distribution market in the U.S.
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u/samuelj264 5h ago edited 1h ago
I think it’s higher than that? Between Sysco and US Foods, I thought those two companies covered 80% of all restaurants
Edit: did a fact check on myself. It’s around 28% by revenue.
Some sources say around 50% if restaurants, venues, schools, and hospitals use Sysco, US foods or PFG for some form of supply.
There are local and regional names like Shamrock, Gordon Foods services, Cheney Brothers than make up a lot of other areas.My personal experience in restaurants is that most places have anywhere from 2-10 suppliers for different things.
For example, the local Mexican QSR I worked at had a scratch kitchen and things came from Sysco, US foods, Shamrock, a fish distributor, a beef distributor, a pork distributor, and a distributor for one time use plates and silverware, also gave to add in the Pepsi vendor, cleaning supply vendor, and the restaurant supply store for things like cambros and kitchen utensils.
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u/Waldo_Wadlo 5h ago
Sorry, I wasn't sure so I did a quick Google search that said roughly 20% market share. I may be off on that.
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u/RainMakerJMR 4h ago
Depends how you categorize it tbh, companies like coremark supply convenience food distribution and performance food group also has a large market share. Plus small local and region distribution makes up a large chunk of it, especially produce and bakery goods, then if you count ice cream and novelties, syscos share gets even smaller
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u/Caymonki 3h ago
PFG owns black river and a handful of other names they operate under. Sysco and US make up the big 3. They’re crushing the local market and buying everything up. Soon all our food will taste the same and if there’s issues with the supply lines it will collapse entire markets.
Competition is good for everyone except billionaires, so of course we can’t have it.
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u/Wrong-Pension-4975 3h ago
In Dec 2013, Sysco announced they'd buy U.S Foods, a merger that would mean (then) $65-B annual revenue, & massive clout over institutions - hospitals, restaurants, hotels, schools, etc.
Sysco Corp. was paying $3.5-B.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303560204579247881181477164
Did that merger go thru?
At the time, Sysco had 425-K customers; Sysco [18%] & U.S Foods [9%] ran 27% of the distribution market.
3 in 2013/ '14 was
Performance Food Group of Richmond, Va, with only a 5% market share.The rest was fragmented among Ks of local players.
I'd bet in 2020, many of the remaining "local players" bit the dust - the pandemic winnowed businesses ferociously.
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u/user2196 3h ago
Did that merger go through?
No. Not sure why you're quoting all these numbers from 2013 but not even checking if they merged or not.
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u/zardozLateFee 4h ago
The "reported" is just a tiny fraction. Not everyone with the shits is calling in.
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u/Huge-Ad2263 3h ago
To be fair, "Taylor Farms" is not a single farm. The company contracts with many farms, and it was one of them that started the outbreak. Most Taylor Farms produce is likely fine. The issue is you're not going to know if yours is fine or not until your next bowel movement.
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u/archmage-khadgar 4h ago
it's always much worse. several members of my family had no idea this outbreak was even occurring at all. there's thousands of people who just assume they ate something bad and it will eventually pass, not knowing they're a part of the numbers. more are fully aware but don't seek medical help because they can't afford it. someone in another reddit thread said recently they were sure they had it but were told the testing would cost them just under $900
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u/Pleasant-Condition85 4h ago
Wait! I just bought a bag of mixed greens from H.E.B. Yesterday. MAN!!!!!
OP out here doing the Lords work
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u/aBuffoonSupreme 4h ago
It hurt seeing HEB here.
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u/happyklam 4h ago
Agreed. I trust HEB so much for quality and I'm glad I've been too busy to shop lately or I would have refilled salad ingredients!
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u/djwm12 3h ago
Why isn't heb pulling this from shelves?
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u/Naive-Offer8868 2h ago
also it seems that Taylor Farms and the US government are having it out on social media like a bunch of teenage boys.
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u/titsmuhgeee 2h ago
I think I'm just going to take a precautionary break from lettuce for the foreseeable future.
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u/snowballmouse 4h ago
Right now its just the iceberg, so if it doesn't have any iceberg lettuce in it you should be ok.
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u/lickingFrogs4Fun 3h ago
I keep hearing it's only iceberg and I also keep hearing they aren't really sure. Taylor farms lettuce tested positive, then it didn't.
It would be nice to have a functioning and competent FDA so we could trust them to investigate.
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u/snowballmouse 2h ago
Yeah, I'm avoiding any lettuce grown by Taylor Farms right now out of an abundance of caution. As I mentioned in another comment, I get my greens from Gotham Greens and haven't had any issues.
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u/Huskies971 3h ago
If you trust the word of Taylor Farms. I would avoid all lettuce unless it's sourced locally or grown in your garden,
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u/eugene_rat_slap 3h ago
I work at Target and picked up some lettuce for a drive up order. I was thinking "buddy's playing with fire here but who am I to judge"
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u/snuffleupagus7 4h ago
Honestly, where can I buy lettuce that isn't going to give me explosive diarrhea? I am wanting salad so bad, it is too hot to eat cooked veggies. Been getting by on tomatoes, cucumbers, bean salad, pasta salad etc but I really want a crisp green salad or lettuce on a burger or sandwich.
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u/aspiring_outlaw 4h ago
Find a farmers market near you. Or buy some seeds and start a window box. Lettuce is very easy to grow and reaches edible stage pretty quick.
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u/snuffleupagus7 3h ago
Farmers markets don't have lettuce and you can't grow lettuce this time of year here, it is a cool season crop and I'm in the southeast where it is super hot, unfortunately
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u/aspiring_outlaw 3h ago
You can grow it inside if you want. I'm in NC and have romaine in my garden right now. I just use the shadier part of my garden for it and pick leaves as I need.
I mean, anything you get at a commercial grocery right now is going to be iffy since we don't actually know what is happening. Those are your two safest options right now.
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u/EntertainerSuper8933 3h ago
Also, you can't trust many farmer's markets not to just buy produce at the HEB and dump it into their own containers.
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u/YouStoleTheKishka 2h ago
As a produce seller, if you’re going to any farm stand with any variety of goods… they’re buying from the same wholesaler as HEB. We sometimes even go to our local HEB (our version of HEB) if our stock is low, and tack on a little margin. We’re linked to a farm too, and yep - we sell their crops, but we’d have nothing for sale 80% of the summer if we weren’t also buying from wholesale.
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u/I-do-the-art 2h ago
The farmers markets near me would take the Taylor Farms Lettuce out of their branded plastic bag and put it out on their stand with their own packaging lol. You can’t trust all farmers markets and all sellers even at reputable ones
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u/Pancakesandcows 2h ago
If your supermarket sells it, Little Leaf Farms is considered safe. They grow theirs in greenhouses, and they pack it as well.
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u/Americanbydefault 1h ago
I am currently eating Little Leaf Farms red lettuce!
They also put out a notice about the outbreak which says a lot about the companies keeping quiet.
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u/doormatlevel9000 3h ago
Avoid lettuce completely until this gets sorted out. You don't need lettuce for a healthy diet, you can still eat veggies if you cook them
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u/snowballmouse 3h ago
I've been buying Gotham Greens brand from Fry's (Kroger); they're hothouse grown, not field grown, and should be safe. They're a little more expensive than the house brand stuff, but its been worth it for the peace of mind.
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u/GalumphingWithGlee 4h ago
Buy it from your local farmer's market. If there is no such thing near you, maybe just wait a couple weeks until this can be removed from the supply chain broadly... At least for the time being.
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u/snuffleupagus7 3h ago
Farmers markets don't have lettuce this time of year, it is a cool season crop. Believe me, I looked. Lol. Maybe in cooler areas you can grow lettuce in the summer but I'm in the southeast where it is super hot
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u/mmechtch 3h ago
It's not in season. Just eat tomatoe/cucumber salad! Much better to eat what's in season.
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u/chronicallyill_dr 2h ago
A lot of my local large grocery stores stock one locally grown lettuce alongside the other brands. I didn’t even noticed until this whole thing.
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u/SilverDubloon 2h ago
Most states have a website through their Dept of Ag where you can find local farms and what they produce. For NC it's gottobenc.com. TN it's picktnproducts.org. Not sure what state you are in but it should be an easy google. Even if buying from local farms, farmers markets, or buying your own, all produce should be washed before eaten.
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u/aznkriss133 1h ago
I've been doing shirazi salads recently but I guess you're burnt out on tomatoes and cucumbers but it's still some variety salad wise.
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u/Your-cousin-It 4h ago
I work at Whole Foods, and almost all of the salads in the prep foods area are from Taylor farms boxes
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u/ryaaan89 4h ago
I’m just not going eat lettuce for a while…
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u/Brave-New-Toaster 2h ago
honestly, with the number of outbreaks that always seem to be tied to lettuce over the years, seems best to just avoid it forever at this point lol
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u/TurtleTheTruth 4h ago
Ah dang didn't realize this. The Earthbound spring mix I got from Costco is from Taylor Farms.
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u/RedHickorysticks 3h ago edited 3h ago
Costco doesn’t mess around with recalls. I’ve seen them pull full truck loads and take the loss before the manufacturer confirms contamination. The Costco Taylor farms comes either from a different processing facility or is confirmed to not have the type of produce that is contaminated. That being said, they will take your return if you don’t want to risk it. Personally I’m not risking my kids and buying anything Taylor Farms this summer.
Edited to add Recall list. You can find this list at Costco.com at the bottom of the page under customer service links.
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u/tangerinegrass 2h ago
I've trust Costco more than any current government department.
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u/MassiveSuperNova 5h ago
My local Aldi uses a different supplier for their whole iceberg lettuce thankfully, but keep an eye on the bagged stuff too
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u/LeastResistancePath 4h ago
Anti trust laws were supposed to protect us for a variety of reasons, including this exact scenario. Where a single corpo farm and their abhorrent practices infests us with parasites.
A single judge on corporate payroll decided that the law actually doesnt do what it says it does, we all lost for the next century.
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u/Blue_Plastic_88 47m ago
Republicans have convinced much of the American public that we don’t need no stinkin’ regulations, unfortunately. I’m hoping, hoping, hoping we at least learn from this that yes, food safety tracking, contagious disease tracking, and safety regulations in general ARE, in fact, needed and helpful to the public and worth spending tax dollars on.
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u/madamepsychosis42 3h ago
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA’s recalls page, which means the only place an American consumer can find out what was pulled is the website of the company that sold it. Set that aside for a moment, because what the notice says is more interesting than where it is posted.
Start with geography. FDA and CDC have told the public to avoid shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell locations in five states — Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Taylor Farms says the recalled shredded iceberg was distributed to twenty-seven: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Twenty-two states received recalled product and have no advisory telling anyone in them anything.
Now, who has actually gone public? Two companies. Taco Bell said it completed removal of affected Taylor Farms lettuce from its restaurants on July 17 and pulled the ingredient from its supply chain nationwide. And Sysco confirmed Friday it was withdrawing all Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce from Mexico at the supplier’s request, having halted sales and distribution the day before. Reuters’ industry source says Taylor Farms called clients on Thursday — including Taco Bell’s parent Yum Brands and Sysco — and that the five-pound bags from the Guanajuato plant go to hospitals, ballparks and fast-food chains. Hospitals. Consider who eats lettuce in a hospital.
That is the entire list of companies that have said anything. Two. Meanwhile the analytics firm Placer.ai told CBS Newsthat product removals at some quick-service chains — plural — appear to be denting restaurant traffic. Somebody else is pulling lettuce and not saying so.
Which brings us to the recall notice itself, where the other customers are hiding in plain sight. The chart lists thirty-five products under eight brand codes: CV, JB, MARK, MKTSD, PK, SUB, SY and TF. Those are customer codes, and Taylor Farms knows exactly what every one of them means.
Before I go further, let me be clear about two things. What follows is inference, not confirmation, and I am showing my reasoning so anyone can check it. And being a Taylor Farms customer is not wrongdoing. Every company below bought lettuce in good faith from one of the largest produce processors in America. The question is not whether they did something wrong. The question is whether product they received reached people who are now sick, and whether the public is entitled to know that. I think the answer is obviously yes.
Start with the pattern rather than the letters. Four codes — CV, MARK, SY and TF — each carry nearly the identical broad assortment: 50/50 blend, 80/20 blend, chopped, salad mix, salad with separate bag, shred. That is what a broadline distributor or a produce cooperative buys, because it stocks the whole catalog for thousands of downstream customers. Three others — SUB, JB and PK — carry one or two items apiece, which is what a single restaurant chain buys, because a chain buys the one cut its recipe calls for. SY is confirmed as Sysco, a broadliner, and it sits squarely in the first group. The pattern holds.
That matters because the big foodservice distributors do not buy produce under their own names. They buy it under private produce labels, and those labels line up with these codes:
SY is Sysco. Confirmed by Sysco’s own announcement.
MKTSD appears to be Marketside, Walmart’s store brand. The four entries are iceberg salad in 12-ounce and 24-ouncebags and shredded lettuce in 8-ounce and 16-ounce bags, matching the Marketside line exactly, in all four sizes. Everything else on the recall is a four-by-five-pound foodservice case.
CV appears to be Cross Valley Farms, the exclusive produce label of US Foods. That would explain why its assortment mirrors Sysco’s nearly line for line — US Foods is the second-largest broadline distributor in the country.
PK appears to be Peak Fresh Produce, the produce label of Performance Food Group. Sysco, US Foods and PFG are the big three, and it would be strange for a national shredded lettuce program to reach two of them and not the third.
MARK appears to be Markon, the foodservice produce cooperative whose member distributors buy precisely this assortment under the First Crop label.
TF is Taylor Farms’ own foodservice label.
SUB appears to be Subway. It carries exactly one item on the recall — quarter-inch shredded lettuce in five-pound cases — which is the sandwich cut, and Subway is the largest buyer of shredded lettuce in the United States. A single-SKU, single-cut buying pattern is what a sandwich chain looks like on a processor’s customer list.
JB appears to be Jack in the Box. It likewise carries one item, eighth-inch fine shred, the finer cut used as a taco and burger topping rather than a sandwich filler. I will note that JB is the thinnest of these reads — Jimmy John’s or Jason’s Deli would be the other candidates a reasonable person might land on, though both would more naturally abbreviate differently.
Let me be straight about the gradient. Sysco is confirmed. Marketside, Cross Valley Farms, Peak Fresh Produce and Markon rest on private-label conventions plus a buying pattern that matches, and I would be surprised to be wrong about them. Subway and Jack in the Box rest on initials plus a cut, which is weaker, and I am telling you that rather than presenting seven findings of equal weight.
The Marketside finding deserves its own paragraph, because of what CDC told NBC News on Friday morning: shredded lettuce sold in grocery stores or served in other restaurants is not affected. Taylor Farms’ own recall notice lists consumer retail bags of shredded iceberg lettuce and iceberg salad. Both statements are in the public record this weekend and they cannot both be true. Federal officials themselves told STAT that other brands, restaurants, retailers or distribution channels could yet be tied to the outbreak. And Michigan’s chief medical executive, Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, made the point plainly: a supplier that sells to restaurants may also stock grocery stores, and many people who got sick in her state said they never ate at Taco Bell.
Recalled Products — Taylor Farms de Mexico (as posted July 17, 2026)
| Brand | Description | Best If Used By |
|---|---|---|
| CV | BLEND LETT/ROM 50/50 NOCLR 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| CV | BLEND LETT/ROM 80/20 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/2/2026 |
| CV | BLEND LETT/ROM 80/20 WITH SEP BAGGIES 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| CV | LETTUCE CHOP 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| CV | LETTUCE SALAD MIX 4/5# | 7/17/2026 – 7/25/2026 |
| CV | LETTUCE SALAD WITH SEP BAG 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| CV | LETTUCE SHRED 1/4″ 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/2/2026 |
| JB | 1/8″ SHRED LETTUCE 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 7/30/2026 |
| MARK | BLEND LETT/ROM 80/20 4/5# | 7/21/2026 – 7/29/2026 |
| MARK | BLEND LETT/ROM 80/20 WITH SEP BAGGIES 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| MARK | LETTUCE CHOP 4/5# | 7/18/2026 – 7/30/2026 |
| MARK | LETTUCE SALAD MIX 4/5# | 7/21/2026 – 7/29/2026 |
| MARK | LETTUCE SALAD WITH SEP BAG 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| MARK | LETTUCE SHRED 1/4″ 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| MARK | BLEND LETT/ROM 50/50 NOCLR 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 7/29/2026 |
| MARK | LETTUCE SHRED 3/8″ 4/5# | 7/21/2026, 7/28/2026 |
| MKTSD | Iceberg Salad, 12 oz, 24 oz | 7/18/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| MKTSD | Shredded Lettuce, 8 oz, 16 oz | 7/18/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| PK | LETTUCE SHRED 1/8″ 4/5# | 7/16, 7/20, 7/25, 7/28, 7/30/2026 |
| PK | LETTUCE SALAD W/BAG 4/5# | 7/18/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| SUB | SHRED LETTUCE 1/4″ 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 7/31/2026 |
| SY | BLEND LETT/ROM 50/50 NOCLR 4/5# | 7/18, 7/21, 7/29, 8/1/2026 |
| SY | BLEND LETT/ROM 80/20 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| SY | LETTUCE CHOP 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| SY | LETTUCE SALAD MIX 4/5# | 7/21/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| SY | LETTUCE SALAD WITH SEP BAG 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| SY | LETTUCE SHRED 1/8″ 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| SY | BLEND LETT/ROM 70/30 NOCOLR 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 7/30/2026 |
| TF | BLEND LETT/ROM 80/20 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| TF | LETTUCE CHOP 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 7/31/2026 |
| TF | LETTUCE SALAD MIX 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| TF | BLEND LETT/ROM 50/50 NOCLR 4/5# | 7/19/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| TF | LETTUCE SALAD W/BAG 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/1/2026 |
| TF | BLEND LETT/ROM 70/30 NOCOLR 4/5# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
| TF | LETTUCE CHOP 1X1″ 4/4# | 7/16/2026 – 8/3/2026 |
Source: Taylor Farms Product Recall Information, last updated July 17, 2026. Consumers with questions can reach Taylor Farms customer care at 855-455-0098.
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u/DeliciousPumpkinPie 3h ago
Thanks for the investigative journalism. I find it amusing that I’ve been hearing about this outbreak for weeks and this is the first time I’ve seen a deep dive on it.
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u/reallycooldude69 1h ago
Taylor Farms has posted a recall notice on its own website. As of this morning it is still not on FDA’s recalls page, which means the only place an American consumer can find out what was pulled is the website of the company that sold it
The recall notice is available on the FDA page you linked. It was published on their website a day after Taylor Farms announced it. It's also linked on the update page for this outbreak.
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u/SignificantDrawer374 4h ago
Look for local farm stands that sell good non-diarrhea lettuce
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u/Lawgirl77 3h ago
Man, some local farmer’s stands here have, allegedly, been caught buying grocery store produce and re-selling it at the stand as “local” produce.
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u/Vacuum_Burrito 3h ago
That is my concern. Farmers markets are getting ruined with this capitalist shit
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u/funintended 4h ago
I work at TJs- our salads, according to the higher ups, are not TFs. I don’t know if it’s different regionally but in the southwest, you’re good to buy. Confirm with your local Trader Joe’s crew member.
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u/Summoarpleaz 4h ago
I know there’s an outbreak but the numbers still feel really small compared to how widespread this product is.
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u/ForsakenRacism 4h ago
YSK it’s a massive company that comes from many different farms.
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u/GalumphingWithGlee 4h ago
Sure, but if you can't differentiate which one it came from, you avoid the whole company until it's fixed.
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u/briellebabylol 4h ago
Especially since they are taking little to no responsibility despite having such a large share of the market.
Their response to this reflects the company as a whole.
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u/NarcolepticSeal 4h ago
I'll be avoiding them period. Taking zero responsibility for this is extremely concerning, and since only 2 pathogens are tracked by the CDC now, I'm not risking getting sick from some other massive fuck up of theirs.
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u/Qualityhams 4h ago
There’s no tracking or accountability, id rather be safe than shitting my brains out.
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u/teaky 4h ago
Fuck this company I hope no one buys their shit lettuce anymore
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u/haw35ome 2h ago
This very post proves why that’s easier said than done…most people can only afford the “generic store brand,” but Taylor farms has such a grip on bagged lettuce & salads
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u/doseofyourown 4h ago
Would Earthbound brand spinach also be affected?
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u/ericabirdly 4h ago
That’s what I’m wondering are we just avoiding iceberg lettuce rn?
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u/nikki815 4h ago
Since they don’t know where or when in the supply chain it’s being contaminated, we don’t know the extent of any cross contamination either.
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u/ListenHereLindah 4h ago
What is kinda crazy, is I heard on the news how it's not linked to TF and they are trying to shift it to taco bell.
TF must have some Magats involved...
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u/TheReddestofBowls 4h ago
"it's a farm in Mexico" who Taylor Farms bought from.
"It's just Taco Bell" who Taylor farms provided to.
The spin on this is crazy. Another maga company allergic to accountability, imagine that
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u/Ali_Takibella 4h ago
Greenwise from Publix properly fucked me up a few weeks ago. Shat my bed and lost 3 lbs in 1 day. I took a lot of ego damage that day. I am now humbled and thinner.
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u/MaidMarian20 3h ago
I had it too. Made it to the bathroom, but stayed there forever. Humbled and thinner is the perfect description. Thanks for that! Hope you feel better soon! ❤️🩹
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u/MrRemoto 4h ago
Luckily for us, the regulatory public systems in place to halt these kind of outbreaks are independent an insulated from industry coercion. Unless there is money in it, of course.
https://www.wired.com/story/diarrhea-outbreak-taylor-farms-maga-donations-lobbying/
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u/iisdmitch 3h ago
O-Organics and Signature Select brands - Safeway/Carrs
Want to add for our Western US friends, this includes Albertsons, and Vons, as they sell the Signature Select and O-Organics brand.
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u/ClassicPlankton 3h ago
It's funny they always told us to eat our leafy greens as kids, but it seems like those are the most unsafe vegetable. How many times in the last decade have we seen some parasite or bacteria thing from leafy greens?
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u/SchleppyJ4 3h ago
Does anyone know where Wegmans gets theirs from?
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u/A1exZand3R 3h ago
This is great insight? How do you find this out? I’m curious what it looks like with other suppliers and companies.
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u/Impatient_Onion 2h ago
The idea that a company is allowed to sell goods under a different name is absolutely insane and one of the first things that would be outlawed if we had a sensible country.
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u/Educational-Error577 2h ago
This happened because Taylor Farms labor practices were forcing workers to take dumps in the field. Keep that in mind before ever buying a Taylor Farms product ever again.
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u/WaftyTaynt 2h ago
Honestly they supply everyone and everyone.
At this point if you want to be safe, only buy local produce.
Even better, only buy local produce (and when it’s in season) anyway. Better for you, tastes better, and better for the world.
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u/Jiminy_Cricket12 2h ago
I've just been avoiding all iceberg lettuce lately. which is fine because I think it's the worst lettuce.
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u/Mundane-Manner4237 2h ago edited 2h ago
Went to the grocery store yesterday. The whole Taylor Farms prepackaged salad section was fully, completely stocked, which is uncommon. Nobody is buying those products now, regardless of what is in them. Just imagine the loss of revenue-previously they generated around 7 billion annually.
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u/Dooglehasen 1h ago
4 weeks ago I tried to buy a bag of greenwise frozen blueberries from publix. As soon as they scanned it at the register a manager came over to take the bag and let us know it had been recalled. Still no frozen blueberries in the store.
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u/yosaffbridge1630 1h ago
It’s really unfortunate to see this the day after eating lettuce under a different brand thinking we were doing the safe thing to then see it on this list… pray for me, guys
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u/Significant-Crow-800 1h ago
I just bought a head of iceberg lettuce from Aldi from ippolito farms. I looked it up and it isn't related to Taylor farms. I still plan to throw out the first 3 layers and wash it well.
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u/8secondsOnTheClock 1h ago
We about to shut this whole company down. They tried buying politicians to get rid of the bad press 😂
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u/xHeyItzRosiex 47m ago
Wow Taylor Farms has such a monopoly over food production… I wonder why monopolies are a bad idea.
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u/MariaTPK 42m ago
I eat a lot of wraps, so as a Canadian I buy a lot of Iceberg lettuce. Yesterday while grocery shopping, I looked at the lettuce, it was $4. I used to buy it for $2, and have been hating paying $3 lately. But this is fucking bullshit. I didn't buy the iceberg, I went for romaine instead. Hopefully I'm safe, but it costed $4 just the same, only this one was not a price hike, it always costs $4.
No Frills was the ones charging $4, but Walmart near it didn't have iceberg lettuce, it had either romaine or in the spot where iceberg used to be it had some other kind, I think it labeled it as Mediterranean. Idr for sure. However it looked too gross to be worth trying, though the tips of the leaves were neat, they had some rot and I am so picky about fruits/vegetable rot and scuffs.
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u/Jabba_the_Putt 34m ago
hey thanks for this info!
question for OP so are you saying that for example 365 is literally Taylor Farms lettuce I am assuming? or are you just listing the brands of lettuce sold by those stores?
so 365, Simple Truth, O-Organics are all actually Taylor Farms sourced lettuce? or those are just the lettuce brands sold by those stores?
and if it's all Taylor Farms sourced I'm just curious how you got that information thanks!
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u/b1gmouth 5h ago
Look for the prefix TF at the start of the code on the package