McDonald's supplier recalls onions and tells a burrito chain to stop using the ingredient

• McDonald's supplier Taylor Farms recalled immoderate yellowish onions owed to imaginable E. coli contamination.
• Another edifice received a announcement astir nan callback connected Wednesday, according to nan Colorado Sun.
• McDonald's has pointed to onions arsenic a apt root for a deadly E. coli outbreak this week.

A awesome McDonald's supplier is reportedly recalling immoderate of its yellowish onions arsenic nan fast-food concatenation deals pinch a deadly E. coli outbreak.

Taylor Farms told Bloomberg precocious Wednesday that it hasn't recovered E. coli successful its onions yet but is acting "out of an abundance of caution." The onions successful mobility came from Taylor Farms operations successful Colorado, according to nan report. Taylor Farms did not instantly respond to a petition for remark from Business Insider.

Food supplier US Foods sent a notice this week to Illegal Pete's, a burrito concatenation pinch restaurants successful Arizona and Colorado, saying that Taylor Farms was conducting nan callback "due to imaginable E.coli contamination." The letter, which was obtained by nan Colorado Sun, told customers pinch definite batches of Taylor Farms onions to destruct them.

The callback comes arsenic McDonald's grapples pinch an E. coli outbreak that nan Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday was connected to immoderate of nan chain's Quarter Pounder burgers.

At slightest 49 group person fallen sick and 1 personification has died successful relationship pinch nan outbreak, according to nan CDC. Most of nan cases impact group successful nan Western US, particularly successful Colorado, nan CDC said.

McDonald's executives said during a property telephone connected Wednesday that they had identified onions arsenic a apt root of nan E. coli contamination, though they added that they had not ruled retired beef patties arsenic a root either. All imaginable sources of nan contamination person been recalled from McDonald's stores, nan executives said.

McDonald's did not respond to a mobility from BI during nan telephone astir whether different restaurants relied connected nan aforesaid supplier for onions.

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