Topline
A wave of SEC filings from major restaurant chains—including Yum! Brands, Sweetgreen and major McDonald’s franchisee Arcos Dorados—explicitly named cyclospora, the parasite that causes the Cyclosporiasis illness, as a material business risk long before an active outbreak tied to Taco Bell’s lettuce supplier sickened thousands of people in dozens of states.
Key Facts
Yum! Brands, parent company of Taco Bell and KFC, named food-borne pathogens including cyclospora, E. coli, listeria, salmonella and trichinosis as a prominent risk factor in its most recent SEC annual filing and named it as the No. 1 threat—ahead of every other business problem it predicted.
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