Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days
A legal expert analyzes Taylor Farms' shifting public statements regarding a Cyclospora outbreak, noting that the company has revised its messaging four times in sixteen days. The analysis suggests that these changes reflect an attempt to manage liability rather than provide transparent information.
A company’s public statement in the middle of an outbreak is not marketing. It is evidence — what the company said it knew, and when, published to the world at a moment when nobody had the benefit of hindsight. I have built cases on those statements since 1993. I have been reading and saving this one since the day the recall issued, and the sixteen days since are worth laying out end to end, because the words have moved a great deal and the substance underneath them has not moved at all.
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