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Blanched Onions: Chipotle Tweaks Cooking After E. Coli Scare
All five reported eating at the restaurants in the week before the illness started.
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According to a report from the WashingtonPost, After an E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 50 people, Chipotle is tweaking its cooking methods. It said same-store sales could fall in the range of 8 percent to 11 percent.
Chipotle’s shares fell $27.40, or 5.3 percent, to close Tuesday at $494.61 in NY.
By comparison, the social media sentiment score of KaloBios Pharmaceuticals, a California biotechnology company controlled by indicted executive Martin Shkreli, was near negative 20 on Tuesday, and Valeant Pharmaceuticals worldwide, which has been accused of price gouging, had a score of positive 10 on Tuesday, after falling as low as negative 25 in early November.
Chipotle no longer has any of the potentially contaminated ingredients that could be examined to determine the source of the infections, company spokesman Chris Arnold said.
Damningly, the company’s last annual report, released in February, appears to show that it was aware of the risk of foodborne illnesses but failed to take action until now.
“We believe they are related, and are working with the CDC and [Food and Drug Administration] while they investigate”, Arnold said.
The new E. coli outbreak comes within weeks after a norovirus outbreak linked to a Chipotle restaurant near Boston College sickened more than 140 people.
Then, at the end of October, E. coli cases were reported in OR and Washington, prompting the company to shut down 43 restaurants in those states.
The food chain is implementing DNA-based safety testing of the ingredients shipped to their restaurants.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has been unable to identify the specific cause of the E. coli spread.
It’s “a very, very exciting time for us to be pushing the boundaries” on food safety, the news service reported Ells said.
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“While it is never possible to completely eliminate all risk, this program eliminates or mitigates risk to a level near zero, and will establish Chipotle as the industry leader in this area”, said Mansour Samadpour, CEO of IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group, in a statement.