Restaurant business Chipotle Mexican Grill has taken “aggressive actions” throughout its supply chain after an outbreak of E.coli cases was linked to several of its United States outlets. All five people reported eating at Chipotle Mexican Grill locations one week before they developed gastrointestinal symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For now, no single food item has been found to be associated with new outbreak that has nothing to do with previous cases.
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Chipotle officials said more than 2,500 tests have been conducted of food, surfaces and equipment, as well as employees, and no E. coli has been found. The CDC said 88 percent of the people who became sick had eaten Chipotle food before they got sick.
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Three of the new cases are in Oklahoma, one in Kansas and one in North Dakota and sequencing of the E. coli strain identified it as a rare variant of O26.
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The most recent illness in this outbreak reported to CDC started on November 3, the federal agency said. Arnold added that the company thinks the illnesses are connected to the larger, previously reported outbreak. Twenty of them have required hospitalization. they began getting sick October 19 with the most recent confirmed case having begun on November 14.
Still, Marler noted the Chipotle cases pale in comparison to an E. coli outbreak in 1993 tied to Jack in the Box that sickened hundreds and led to four deaths.
Initially affecting restaurants in just Washington and OR, news of similar illnesses were eventually reported in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Six days later, Taylor Farms Pacific voluntarily recalled the celery and onion diced blend used in the Costco chicken salad and many other products containing celery, because they might be contaminated with E. coli. This investigation is ongoing, the CDC said.
“In the end, it may not be possible for anyone to completely eliminate all risk with regard to food (or from any environment where people congregate), but we are confident that we can achieve near zero risk”, Ells wrote. Seattle-based IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group recently designed a food-safety program for the company.
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Officials are using whole genome sequencing (WGS) to determine if the E. coli bacteria that has sickened people in the new outbreak is genetically related to the E. coli bacteria causing the older, larger outbreak.
