The CDC had interviewed 18 people with confirmed cases and 12 of them said they had eaten a quarter pounder burger before becoming sick.
McDonald’s yanked Quarter Pounders at roughly one-fifth of its US locations after a deadly E.Coli outbreak was linked to the popular burger, the company said Wednesday.The nation’s largest fast-food chain said Wednesday that it is confident the culprit of the outbreak were slivered onions atop the Quarter Pounder.McDonald’s has yanked Quarter Pounders in states where there have been reports of consumers becoming ill from E. coli.
The FDA and CDC alerted McDonald’s about illnesses linked to its food late last week, a spokesman said. “The information flow is unfolding more slowly than normal,” food safety expert James Marsden told The Post on Wednesday.The CDC had interviewed 18 people with confirmed cases and 12 of them said they had eaten a Quarter Pounder before becoming sick, a McDonald’s spokesman said.
Meanwhile, McDonald’s franchisees are bracing for a slump in business — exacerbating a slowdown in sales that has resulted in McDonald’s“This will affect us all with people being hesitant to visit,” one franchise operator, who did not want to be identified, told The post.A McDonald’s spokesman declined to address whether the company’s foot traffic has been impacted by the outbreak.
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