Health

The Hill - Taylor Farms has expanded a voluntary recall of iceberg lettuce that was distributed to 27 states after federal health officials linked the lettuce from its supplier in central Mexico to the spread of an “explosive diarrhea” parasite.

Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) linked shredded iceberg lettuce from a single supplier in Mexico to a multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened at least 1,600 people this year.

The California-based produce company said Friday that it is recalling 25 shredded lettuce and salad mix products sourced from the contaminated lot in central Mexico, saying it stopped purchasing lettuce from the source while it works to remove the products from the market.

The Hill -  Derek Griffith, the director of the program for research on men’s health at the University of Pennsylvania, told The Hill that as only 2 percent of the male population suffers from low testosterone, it doesn’t “suggest that this is a major problem” in the military — a group of relatively younger, fitter men and women.