'McDonald's is no longer serving recalled onions and there does not appear to be a continued food safety concern related to this outbreak,' the FDA said.
The recent outbreak of E. coli linked to McDonald's quarter pounder burgers is over, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday.The CDC Announcement'CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration , and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service collected different types of data to investigate a multistate outbreak of E. coli,' the CDC said. 'This outbreak is over.
The CDC said in a report last month that Colorado was the state with the highest number of reported cases with at least 30, followed by 19 in Montana, 13 in Nebraska, 10 in New Mexico, eight each in Missouri and Utah, six in Wyoming, three in Kansas, two in Michigan and one case each in Iowa, North Carolina, Oregon, Washington and Wisconsin.McDonald's ResponseIn response to the outbreak, McDonald's temporarily removed Quarter Pounders from menus at one-fifth of its U.S. locations.
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