Fresh jalapeños recalled due to salmonella outbreak in 27 states, including Texas 8%

By Brian Kirkpatrick0% Texas Public Radio9%

8/6/2026, 5:19:29 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Indoctrination, Negativity Bias, and In-Group Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 23.8% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 181 faulty-reasoning hits from 164 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 17.4% and a BS Rank of 8% (28,210 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 92.20% of the article peer group.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a recall for jalapeños linked to a nationwide outbreak of salmonella. 
Hundreds of cases have been reported across the U.S. in many states, including some cases in Texas. 
Texans love their jalapeños, so check your favorites to make sure they are not distributed by Coast Citrus. 
The CDC says the peppers were grown in Sinaloa, Mexico and distributed primarily to Mexican-style restaurants or by wholesale. 
Chipotle Mexican Grill was among the restaurants notified of the recall and they stopped serving them right away. 
Surfaces that come into contact with the contaminated jalapeños should also be disinfected. 
Most people infected with salmonella get sick with upset stomach within a few hours to a week. 
Most recover within a week of first symptoms. 
The very young, seniors, and those with weakened immune systems sometimes require hospitalization. 
Read more about the recall and the outbreak here. 
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164 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers35%attributed speech107writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
39 attributed words68% of attributed speech92% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Indoctrination-29.0 ptsWriter: 29.0%Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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