Lettuce Prices Plunge
Lettuce prices plunged a record 16.4% in July as a cyclospora outbreak weakened demand and hit salad sales.
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For the last month, Americans have viewed their lunchtime salads or even a single, crisp leaf of iceberg on their burger as a possible threat. Could it harbor cyclospora, the explosive-diarrhea-causing parasite that by early August had sickened thousands, hospitalized hundreds, and led to two deaths?
