Investigation of E. coli outbreak at McDonald's supplier Taylor
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is investigating whether McDonald's supplier Taylor Farms was the source of an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder hamburgers.
$McDonald's(MCD)$ This will became a consumer panic. A Colorado resident has accused McDonald’s of negligence after he tested positive for E. coli shortly after consuming food from the fast food chain, marking the first lawsuit against McDonald’s since the company’s hamburgers were linked to an outbreak of the bacterial infection, resulting in some hospitalizations and at least one death. Oct 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that 75 persons have been infected from the E.coli outbreak linked to McDonald's (MCD.N), opens new tab Quarter Pounder hamburgers. The infections had killed one person, sickened 49 and hospitalized 10 across the U.S. West and Midwest, the CDC had said on Oct. 2