Costco only has one supplier for those vegetables in the chicken salad, which is sold in all its U.S. stores, Wilson said, adding that the supplier is Taylor Farms of Salinas, CA.
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As a result, “Taylor Farms Pacific, Inc., voluntarily recalled multiple products containing celery”, the agency said.
Wednesday the amount of people sickened in the outbreak will probably grow during the the next couple of weeks, although the merchandise was removed from shop shelves, the CDC said. Taylor Farms says customers should throw those items out.
Though it’s common for people to have E. coli in their intestines, some forms of the bacteria are unsafe.
The product is labeled “Chicken Salad made with Rotisserie Chicken” with item number 37719 on the label. The FDA announced that the mixture was being recalled out as a precaution due to a Celery and Onion Diced blend testing positive for E. coli 0157:H7 in a sample taken by the Montana Department of Health, which was used in a Costco Rotisserie Chicken Salad that has been linked to the multi-state E. coli outbreak. In addition to Costco, the products are also sold at Starbucks, Target, and Walmart, among other grocery stores and they all use the mix in their prepared deli foods.
“This is a very bad strain”. 5 people have been hospitalized, and two of them are being treated for kidney failure. “So it’s a much more hazardous strain than the one that involved the Chipotle restaurants”. No deaths have been reported.
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Most people infected with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) develop diarrhea (often bloody) and abdominal cramps an average of 3-4 days after swallowing the germ.
