The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in Iowa and Nebraska stomach disease outbreaks with local olive groves and Red Lobster restaurant serves Mexican farms salad mix.
Cyclospora infection outbreak has been in all 16 states and more than 400 disgust. The agency said it is still working salad combinations to determine whether the source of the disease in another 14 states.
"It is not clear whether the cases reported from other countries are the same outbreak," the agency said in a statement. "In the case of other countries to increase cyclosporiasis the investigation continues."
Orlando - Darden Restaurants owns Red Lobster and Olive Garden. Darden spokesman Mike Bernstein said in a statement, FDA's announcement was "new information."
"None of this announcement, we have seen no reason to worry about our vendor's products from this we have received it," Bernstein said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it tracked diseases, from Nebraska and Iowa restaurant Taylor Farms Mexico, Mexico Salinas, Calif.-based Taylor Farms Branch. Said that the company provide production food service industry, and its facilities are located in San Miguel - de Allende about 180 miles north of Mexico City, is the only one of the cases, you can connect to the 12 sites.
In an e-mail that Chairman and CEO of Taylor Farms, Bruce Taylor, Mexico facility produces thousands of restaurants in the Midwest and eastern parts of millions of monthly salad. He said that the facility has a wide range of water quality testing program.
"All of our tests are negative, Cyclospora in our product we have no evidence," Taylor said. "We are working closely with the FDA to continue to investigate."
Farms in an accompanying statement on the company's website, Taylor said, Mexico plant is "advanced, there is a special food safety record." The statement said, the product is food supply.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it had audited Mexico treatment facility in 2011, found that "no significant problems." The agency said it would increase monitoring efforts to green products imported from Mexico.
Recently in these two countries with known infections salad in Nebraska a month ago. Salad mix is ??a typical shelf life of up to 14 days.
Other countries have been more recent disease. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recent disease is July 23, but the center does not have a specified location.
The agency said its investigation did not implicate any package sold in grocery stores salad.
 



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