Source: US News & World Report
“Fresh onions are the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald’s restaurants that has sickened 49 people and killed one, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said late on Wednesday, alarming some McDonald’s customers and other fast-food chains using onions as an ingredient. Taylor Farms, a supplier for McDonald’s, the biggest U.S. burger chain, recalled several batches of yellow onions produced in a Colorado facility, according to a recall memo on Wednesday by US Foods, one of the largest suppliers of food service operations in the country. The US Foods recall alert does not mention whether US Foods supplies onions to McDonald’s. Fresh onions are an ingredient in McDonald’s Quarter Pounder, and McDonald’s pulled the Quarter Pounder from its menu in Colorado, Kansas, Utah and Wyoming, and in parts of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico and Oklahoma.” (10/24/24)