Posted on 11/17/2024 7:30:27 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
McDonald's is investing $100 million to bring customers back to stores after an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning tied to onions on the fast-food giant's Quarter Pounder hamburgers.
The investments include $65 million that will go directly to the hardest-hit franchises, the company said.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that slivered onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli. Taylor Farms in California recalled onions potentially linked to the outbreak.
Colorado reported at least 30 cases; Montana reported 19; Nebraska, 13; and New Mexico, 10. The illnesses were reported between Sept. 12 and Oct. 21. At least 104 people got sick and 34 were hospitalized, according to federal health officials. One person died in Colorado and four people developed a potentially life-threatening kidney disease complication.
The Food and Drug Administration has said that “there does not appear to be a continued food safety concern related to this outbreak at McDonald’s restaurants.”
But the outbreak hurt the company's sales.
Quarter Pounders were removed from menus in several states in the early days of the outbreak. McDonald’s identified an alternate supplier for the 900 restaurants that temporarily stopped serving the burgers with onions. Over the past week, McDonald's resumed selling Quarter Pounders with slivered onions nationwide.
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I’m guessing hand washing might be the issue. I’m told that McD employees are supposed to wash their hands when they change activities.
This hit within a week of Trump working the McDonalds drive thru. That’s the price the Dems and media penalized McDonalds for allowing Trump the opportunity.
Such are the risks of industrial agriculture.
Colorado reported at least 30 cases; Montana reported 19; Nebraska, 13; and New Mexico, 10. The illnesses were reported between Sept. 12 and Oct. 21. At least 104 people got sick and 34 were hospitalized, according to federal health officials. One person died in Colorado and four people developed a potentially life-threatening kidney disease complication.
Only at the point of processing. It's too wide spread for it to have been MickyD. JMO
I’d want to know the legal status of that plant’s employees who are processing those onions.
Sounds like someone at Taylor Farms lacks basic hygiene skills. Being CA, I'm sure the "Wash Hands Before Returning to Work" signs are in both English and Spanish. Someone was being lazy and ignored the protocol.
Yes.
I can only imagine the size of the batches. Big tubs and then into 5 gallon buckets. Sounds like someone tainted a big tub or a dicing machine.
“I’m guessing hand washing might be the issue. I’m told that McD employees are supposed to wash their hands when they change activities.”?
a first for FR: you didn’t even read the extract:
“The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said that slivered onions on the Quarter Pounders were the likely source of the E. coli. Taylor Farms in California recalled onions potentially linked to the outbreak.”
it was fresh slivered onions served only on quarter pounders ...
and McDs didn’t grow those onions, so how could hand washing just affect one item on the menu, the ONLY menu item that used fresh Taylor Farms onions and that sickened folks in dozens of restaurants, anyway?
I’m now going to bless you all with my Quarter Pounder with Cheese standard order:
NO slivered onions, no ketchup
ADD “dehydrated onions” (same as the small cheeseburger)
You can also add extra pickle.
If I go to the cheapest McD’s (same owner for 2 stores) I can get 2 QP with cheese for about $5.40 total.
I think at the more expensive one up the road, I got 2 QP w/cheese (BOGO receipt coupon), 2 6 piece McNuggets (BOGO on the app), Large Fries and a Large shake for $13.98 with tax.
Fed 4 people (sorta) - I ate 2 times McNuggets on 2 meals with fries, somebody else got the shake, 2 other people each got a QP.
FWIW, the onion processor never found any E.Coli in its products or production areas, and no doubt the FDA and McDonalds were all over them when this problem arose.
Start with a million dollars for each current victim. Include an NDA if you want.
Spend the rest on retraining employees in restaurant sanitation, including personal hygiene.
This is exactly why we have ultra-processed foods everywhere, which is now an issue with RFK and others.
“Natural” = some risk which can never be fully eliminated especially when done at massive scale like McDonalds.
Government regulators and massive corporations demand zero-risk, zero variability, and trial lawyers will bankrupt you something occurs.
So in this case, its better to make all ingredients in a laboratory instead.
The media keeps saying it was a McDonald’s e coli problem when actually it was the onion supplier that was the problem. And, from what I understand it wasn’t just McDonald’s that received the tainted onions. I think they constantly refer to McDonald’s because Trump did his campaign PR ad there.
There are always guys that go out of the bathrooms without washing their hands. Not most, but some.
I notice because I worked in food a couple times as a kid and a teenager. I’m a fanatic about hand-washing when dealing with food. To this very day.
“Natural” = some risk which can never be fully eliminated especially when done at massive scale like McDonalds.
Government regulators and massive corporations demand zero-risk, zero variability, and trial lawyers will bankrupt you something occurs.
So in this case, its better to make all ingredients in a laboratory instead.
I have been out to eat with a group of friends, we ate the same thing and I was the only one to get “food poisoning” (not fun). What was the cause?
Precisely.
Even 25 years ago Taco Bell would send out the meat in sealed bags to be boiled to heat them up.
No more local preparation like in the 1970s.
... it was fresh slivered onions served only on quarter pounders ... and McDs didn’t grow those onions, so how could hand washing just affect one item on the menu, the ONLY menu item that used fresh Taylor Farms onions and that sickened folks in dozens of restaurants, anyway?
Precisely.
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