Coming down with the food contamination after a woeful loss to UMass-Lowell is not the best thing to happen to basketball players of Boston College; and coaches disclosed that some players were not able to play yesterday due to the food poisoning – BC Interruption reports.
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Chipotle had been under fire in the US for E.coli outbreaks that had spread into nine states, with 47 out of the 52 sick individuals having said they ate at the chain restaurant.
Chipotle on Tuesday said it would not shutter any other outlets in the Boston area.
Passers-by walk near a closed Chipotle restaurant on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, in the Cleveland Circle neighborhood of Boston.
Chipotle, already grappling with a multistate E. coli outbreak that has battered the burrito chain’s sales and stock price, has temporarily closed the Cleveland Circle restaurant where the Boston College students reported eating.
William Christopher, the department’s commissioner, said it was not immediately known if management at Chipotle was aware of the employee’s symptoms.
Chipotle executives also said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) used “unusual and unorthodox” reporting methods against the company.
“In preparation to reopen, we are conducting a full sanitization procedure, surveying our employees to be sure none are sick (as a matter of policy, any sick employees will be held out of work until they are healthy and cleared to return), and working with health officials while they conduct their review of this”, Arnold told the Boston Globe. It causes as many as 21 million illnesses annually, often in places such as hospitals, cruise ships and universities where people eat and live in close quarters. The symptoms often start out slow, such as mild stomach pain or non-bloody diarrhea that becomes worse over the succeeding days. That outbreak has sickened 52 people in nine states, with the most recent illness starting on November 13.
The company had said that it had no evidence to suggest a connection between that outbreak and the Boston incident.
At a presentation Tuesday for analysts in New York City, Chipotle executives noted the exposure period for the E. coli cases appears to be over.
That would mark the first time the sales figure has declined since Chipotle went public in 2006.
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Wedbush reiterated their hold rating on shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. The stock is down almost 25 percent in the quarter to date.
