date:Jul 22, 2013
Seventeen years ago, an outbreak of the protozoan parasite cyclospora was quickly blamed on California strawberries but these would later turn out not to be the source. What was missed in the investigation was the steady increase in imports of raspberries from the poor Central American nation of Guatemala.
U.S. imports of raspberries from Guatemala were doubling every year and American consumers were literally gobbling them up when they arrived in the produce section every spring.
But spring