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CDC Investigating Another Chipotle E.Coli Outbreak
The CDC said it does not know if the more recent cases are connected to the outbreak linked to Chipotle in late October which affected 53 people, according to media reports.
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“Chipotle’s food safety issues seem to have exposed deficiencies in the chain’s supply testing protocol, particularly as it – like Yum China – manages hundreds of small suppliers”, David Palmer of RBC Capital Markets said in a December 7 report.
“All 3 Oklahoma ill people ate at a single Chipotle location in Oklahoma, and the North Dakota ill person traveled to Kansas during their exposure period and at the same Chipotle location as the Kansas ill person”.
In addition to the ongoing E. coli investigation, Chipotle is still reeling from a norovirus that originated at one of its Boston-area locations, sickening dozens of students at Boston College and other locals who ate food from the restaurant.
The Food and Drug Administration conducted a traceback investigation of the FDA-regulated ingredients used in the chicken salad to try to determine which ingredient was linked to illness.
However, that wasn’t the situation with the five new cases, which “were tied together based on their DNA fingerprint and then we went back and asked them if they had eaten at Chipotle”, he said.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has said it is implementing new standards to ensure food safety. These cases are now being examined separately because it is “not known if these infections are related to the larger, previously reported outbreak”, the CDC says. To help in the endeavor, the company is working with outside food safety experts, including Mansour Samadpour, CEO of IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group.
“While it is never possible to completely eliminate all risk, this program eliminates or mitigates risk to a level near zero, ” he said earlier this month. There have been no reports of hemolytic uremic syndrome and no deaths.
Researchers aren’t certain if this latest spate of illnesses was related to the previous, more far-reaching outbreak that stretched across nine states but was largely concentrated in OR and Washington.
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Five people in those three states have become sick with a strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O26 between November 18 and November 26. It is important to note that the most recent visit of any of these cases was a month ago (Nov. 23).