The uncomfortable reasons human waste keeps turning up in your lettuce

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<p>This summer, the U.S. saw its largest cyclospora outbreak on record &mdash; 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"><em>Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety</em></a>, joins <em>Apple News In Conversation</em> host David Greene to explain how America&rsquo;s food-safety system actually works, how the system evolved, and what recent outbreaks reveal about the changes needed to make us all safer.</p>