The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce

Aug 13, 2026 35 min

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This summer, the U.S. saw its largest cyclospora outbreak on record — with more than 22,000 suspected cases linked to contaminated iceberg lettuce, alongside a wave of other foodborne illnesses. Timothy D. Lytton, a law professor at Georgia State University and author of <a href="https://books.apple.com/us/book/outbreak/id6503579166" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety</a>, joins Apple News In Conversation host David Greene to explain how America’s food-safety system actually works, how the system evolved, and what recent outbreaks reveal about the changes needed to make us all safer.

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