McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers have been linked to an E. coli outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in an alert on Tuesday.
McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers have been linked to an E. coli outbreak spanning ten states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Tuesday. The CDC said in an alert that it has launched an investigation after 49 people reported getting sick eating Quarter Pounders. There have been ten hospitalizations and one death linked to the outbreak. "This is a fast-moving outbreak investigation," the CDC said in a statement.
McDonald's North America chief supply chain officer Cesar Piña said in an internal statement that the company is "taking swift and decisive action" to address the outbreak, and reported that "The initial findings from the investigation indicate that a subset of illnesses may be linked to slivered onions used in the Quarter Pounder and sourced by a single supplier that serves three distribution centers.
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