2026-08-14
35 分钟This is In Conversation from Apple News.
I'm David Greene, in for Shumita Basu.
Today, what a summer of food-borne illness reveals about food safety in the US.
This summer, Americans were hit with the worst outbreak of Cyclospora on record.
The CDC suspects that more than 22,000 people in 15 states
have been sickened by the parasitic infection,
which has been linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce imported from Mexico.
But it's not the only outbreak of a food-borne illness this season.
In the past two months, there have been multiple Salmonella outbreaks,
including one tied to eggs and another to jalapeños, that have sickened over 400 people.
And there have been smaller outbreaks of E. coli linked to frozen berries
and Listeria tied to soft cheese.
You need to be generally aware of the fact that whenever you eat something,
there's a risk involved in that.
And I think people are surprised by this in part because it's such an intimate thing.
That is Timothy Lytton.
He's a law professor at Georgia State University and the author of Outbreak:
Food-borne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety.
The place where you feel most insulated from the world—
your own home, where you're making your own meals and you're sitting down to family dinner—