FDA Announces Results of Romaine Lettuce Sampling Assignment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released the findings of a sampling assignment that tested romaine lettuce from facilities and farms in the Salinas, California, and Yuma, Arizona regions for the presence of pathogens that have been linked to outbreaks of foodborne illness, specifically Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp.
The assignment to detect these pathogens began in November 2019 and ended in December 2020, including a pause in sample collection and testing from March through October 2020 due to the pandemic. FDA did not detect any pathogens during the assignment.