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Ex-CDC official says cyclospora numbers don't add upFormer senior CDC official Debra Houry says federal and state case counts diverge wildly, with Michigan alone reporting 2,640 cases on 13 July against a national CDC figure of just 843 that day. RF…Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products across 26 statesThe salmonella outbreak behind it has sickened 345 people and hospitalised 36 across 27 states, traced to a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, and lands weeks after Taylor Farms was already fighting a sepa…Rain saves Australia's wheat crop from the worst forecastsABARES now expects 26.7 million tonnes of wheat for 2026-27, down 26% year on year but well above the roughly 21.3 million tonne figure some private forecasters were pricing in earlier this season.…US beef prices hit recordsCattle herd sizes are at their lowest since the 1950s after years of drought-driven culling, and rebuilding a herd takes years, not quarters. Restaurant chains reliant on burgers and steaks are alr…McDonald's swaps US boss after its slowest growth in a yearMcDonald's just replaced the head of its largest and most profitable market, which only happens when the board has stopped believing the strategy will recover on its own. US same-store sales growth…Heatwave crop damage is about to show up on supermarket shelvesEuropean heatwaves this summer have hit yields for wheat, vegetables and dairy across France, Spain and southern England, and that damage takes weeks to filter through to UK shelf prices rather tha…Michigan confirms first two deaths in cyclospora outbreakCyclospora outbreaks are typically linked to contaminated fresh produce imports, making this a supply chain traceability problem for grocers and importers as much as a public health one.Jersey Mike's $1bn IPO opened lower, not higherA sandwich chain pricing a $1bn IPO and then sinking on its trading debut signals public market investors are getting choosier about consumer franchise valuations, even profitable, cash-generative …Yum Brands says Taco Bell sales are recovering post-cyclosporaThe outbreak dented traffic hard enough that Yum's CEO addressed it directly on the earnings call, and a fast recovery claim only holds up if the next quarter's same-store sales confirm it.Greggs found growth in matcha and protein bars, not sausage rollsGreggs grew profit despite a summer heatwave that should have hurt footfall for a hot-food bakery chain, and the answer is a menu pivot toward iced drinks, matcha, and protein-heavy snacking that's…Britain's blackberry surplus is getting rescued, one hedgerow at a timeA bumper wild blackberry crop this summer is going unpicked, prompting volunteer foraging schemes to save fruit that would otherwise rot, a small but real marker of how mild autumns are shifting UK…Cracker Barrel's CEO didn't survive her own rebrandJulie Masino is stepping down roughly a year after the logo redesign that triggered a customer revolt loud enough to force the company back to its original branding within weeks. The reversal didn'…Taco Bell scrambles to contain a Cyclospora outbreakTaco Bell is pulling supply trucks to contain contamination, the latest fast-food chain forced into a costly recall over a parasite linked to fresh produce.Taylor Farms confirmed as the source of the diarrhea outbreakHealth officials have narrowed the outbreak to Taylor Farms produce despite days of conflicting signals, a reminder that the fragmented US food supply chain still struggles to trace contamination q…Andrew Forrest just bet on tungsten, and defence supply chains explain whyThe Fortescue billionaire's stake in a tungsten miner sent the stock jumping, and the logic is straightforward: tungsten is a critical input for munitions and hard alloys, China controls roughly 80…Ransomware halts Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy productionA ransomware attack that stops physical production, not just IT systems, is the scenario every CISO fears and most boards still underfund against. Coca-Cola suspended manufacturing at Fairlife's da…Taco Bell pulls lettuce over Cyclospora outbreakHealth authorities have linked the outbreak to Taylor Farms lettuce supplied to Taco Bell locations across several states, forcing the chain to yank the ingredient before the CDC finishes its case …Smucker's $5 billion Twinkie bet has flopped. Consumer nostalgia is not a business model.Smucker's acquisition of Hostess Brands for roughly $5 billion in 2023 is now being studied as a case study in overpaying for brand sentiment. The Twinkie's cultural cachet did not translate into t…UK chip shops caught selling catfish as traditional codBBC investigation reveals some chippies are passing off cheaper Southeast Asian catfish as "traditional fish supper," echoing 2013's horsemeat scandal.