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Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) Is Falling After Another E.coli Outbreak
However, the latest person did not report having eaten at Chipotle in the week before November 14, when illness started, the CDC document explained.
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A case of E. coli illness has been reported in Johnson County, along with one in North Dakota, both involving people who ate at the Chipotle Mexican Grill in Shawnee, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Monday. “Chipotle says it’s helping find which distributor created the problem”.
Following initial reports of the outbreak, Chipotle pledged to adapt new food safety procedures and hired Seattle-based IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group to help it identify and implement new health strategies.
The CDC said it is using whole-genome sequencing to analyze the E. coli fingerprint behind the second cluster of illnesses to determine if it is genetically related to the strain causing the larger outbreak. The CDC counts 20 hospitalizations to date that are tied to the E. coli outbreak. Then in October, the first cases of E. coli poisoning began to surface in the Pacific Northwest. Earlier this month the company was also rocked when at least 120 Boston College students and others got sick after eating at Chipotle though those incidents were likely connected to norovirus and not E. coli, according to the company. “This investigation is ongoing”.
Chipotle co-CEO Steve Ells has told The Associated Press he doesn’t think the company will ever know for sure the exact ingredient that sickened customers in the larger outbreak, but that he believes it was bacteria in fresh food like tomatoes or cilantro.
According to the CDC: “46 (88%) of 52 people interviewed reported eating at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant”.
“We have indicated before that we expected that we may see additional cases stemming from this, and CDC is now reporting some additional cases”, the spokesman said. The majority of these cases were reported in Washington and Oregon.
Apparently the last round of inspections, reevaluations, and cleanings weren’t enough to get Chipotle out of the woods after E-Coli outbreaks in multiple locations ravaged the fast food restaurant’s image.
Chipotle’s sales are tanking in the midst of the illness scares.
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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, ” he said earlier this month.