2 weeks Ago By USA TODAY
announced that burgers would return to restaurants affected by an E. coli outbreak in the coming week during a media briefing Sunday. The announcement comes as the Colorado Department of Agriculture reported that samples of Quarter Pounder beef taken from restaurants The fast food giant said that it had ruled out beef as a source of the contamination by using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and supply chain data in a "The issue appears to be contained to a particular ingredient and geography, and we remain very confident that any contaminated product related to this outbreak has been removed from our supply chain and is out of all McDonald’s restaurants," Cesar Piña, McDonald's Chief Supply Chain Officer, North America, said in the statement.
The company said that the burgers will return to menus without slivered onion at the 900 restaurants that receive slivered onions from distributer , where a Food and Drug Administration investigation is ongoing. McDonald's said it would return Quarter Pounders that Colorado Kansas Utah Wyoming The menu item is set to return in portions of: Idaho Iowa Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma The company did not provide a specific day for the return of the burger, but did say that it had instructed its beef suppliers to produce a fresh supply of Quarter Pounder beef for restaurants. As of Oct.
24, the outbreak has caused 13 states, inducing 22 hospitalizations and one death in Colorado. Two people also developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a serious condition that can cause kidney failure. At 26, Colorado has the most cases of illness reported, followed by Montana with 13 and Nebraska with 11.
The rest of the states reported five or fewer cases. Food safety experts have previously told USA TODAY that more cases are likely to be linked to the outbreak, echoing the statement from McDonald's. in relation to the outbreak, with lawyers for those who have already filed suit anticipating more to come.
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