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Lettuce prices posted their biggest recorded monthly plunge as cyclospora scared off shoppers

The 16.4% monthly decline was the largest ever recorded for lettuce in the consumer price index, but few shoppers rushed to buy

.The lettuce price index fell 16.4% in July from June, the largest one-month decline on record for the category in the consumer price index, as a multistate cyclospora outbreak drove consumers away from the leafy green.

Within the CPI's food category, no item fell harder month-over-month in July than lettuce, a month in which overall food prices rose just 0.1%. Even after July's plunge, lettuce prices are still up 7.5% compared with a year earlier, outpacing the 3.4% rise in........

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