From November 18 to 26, five people have fallen sick after eating at Chipotle restaurants in Kansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those five cases, all five reported eating at Chipotle before falling ill.
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The three in Oklahoma ate at the same restaurant there, which was not identified.
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Following the outbreak, Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has said it is tightening standards to ensure food safety. Spokesman Chris Arnold said in an email Monday that the chain is in the process of implementing its new programs, which include increased testing of ingredients and training for workers.
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The CDC would not say how likely or unlikely it is that all the cases with both DNA fingerprints are linked but said it is performing tests to make that determination and hopes to know in a few weeks. “Again, given the lag between when the illness is contracted and when the symptoms arise, and how quickly they turn over their produce, it may be impossible to actually link it to a specific item”.
The new cases come less than a week after Chipotle Founder and Co-Chief Executive Steve Ells published an open letter to customers in about 60 newspapers across the U.S.in which he apologized for outbreaks that have sickened people. The most recent infection linked to Chipotle exposure in that outbreak was on November 10, the CDC said, although the agency had not yet declared the outbreak officially over. There’s no word yet whether this outbreak is related to the bigger, original one that has since affected 53, including one new case from Pennsylvania. The restaurant chain hired IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group to help refine its procedures. With all of these programs in place, we are confident that we can achieve a level of food safety risk that is near zero. There have been no cases of HUS or deaths from this outbreak, although 20 of those who have become ill have been hospitalized. Denver-based Chipotle already had tumbled 21 percent this year through last week in the wake of the earlier outbreaks.
The new cases come as Chipotle is under investigation for a separate outbreak of E.coli in October.
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Another 80 people, mostly students, were sickened by norovirus from a Boston-area Chipotle this month.
