Through the summer of 2026, federal regulators and companies recalled or investigated iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms for cyclospora, alfalfa sprouts, jalapenos from Mexico and eggs for salmonella, frozen blueberries for E. coli, and Outshine fruit bars for glass. The discussion has moved from whether this is an unusually bad year or a better-detected one to the state of the system itself: the FDA has lost about 20% of its staff, and the Mexican plant at the center of the cyclospora investigation had not been inspected in seven years. Questions have also been raised about the FDA's false-positive finding, which came days after a late-night White House visit by Taylor Farms CEO Bruce Taylor, who gave about $1 million to…