A recent E. coli outbreak has been traced back to a California-based produce company that supplied onions linked to the illnesses at McDonald’s, officials with the fast-food chain said Thursday.
They said that Taylor Farms, headquartered in Salinas, sent onions to one McDonald’s distribution facility, which led the chain to remove its Quarter Pounder hamburgers from restaurants in several states. McDonald’s didn’t say which facility it was.
The outbreak has affected at least 49 people across 10 states and resulted in one death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Investigators are focusing on slivered onions as a potential source of the E. coli infections, the CDC said in the Oct. 22 statement….