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The FDA, however, doubled down on the severity of the investigation, saying in an X post that the false positive doesn’t change “the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”

From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026

Investigators from the Food and Drug Administration announced over the weekend that iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms had tested positive for cyclospora but later retracted that statement saying it was a false positive.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

On X, the FDA stated, “To clarify, this false positive lab sample does not change the basis for FDA’s ongoing outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by Taylor Farms.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

It creates the false impression of consensus and momentum where it doesn’t actually exist.

From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026

After what had happened with Russell, his parents threatening to charge me, even a false accusation was too much to bring to our home.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Almost everything that happens afterward feels even falser than the onion.

From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2017

He tones down his own mugging from Zoolander this time out, retreating to a more familiar reasonable-and-rational act that makes Stiller's much more exaggerated performance look even falser by contrast.

From The Verge ● Feb. 11, 2016

The movie's involved story, full of false leads and falser dialogue, manages the difficult trick of getting more preposterous as it goes along.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the new Writers, building on their ground, thinking them true, add to them, and invent, and draw other Experiments from them, that are falser then the Principles they insisted on.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

“Your stars are falser than yourself,” tartly snapped the Duchess.

From Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time by Hazelton, George C.

Isn’t a novel, as we might have said in high school, one of the falsest things going as well as one of the truest?

From The New Yorker ● Apr. 1, 2019

“Biography is the falsest of the arts,” he said.

From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2010

The falsest of truisms is that art is communication, as Novelist Brigid Brophy demonstrates with this admirably wicked little book.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they were the falsest thing in the sea and the old man loved to see the big sea turtles eating them.

From "The Old Man and The Sea" by Ernest Hemingway

But unconfusedly the Parisians raved over even the falsest tones with the same enthusiasm.

From Boris Lensky by Schubin, Ossip