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Salinas-based international food production giant Taylor Farms had announced a recall on four onion products 'due to potential E. coli contamination.' As FDA probes source of national E. coli ...
According to the Associated Press (AP), McDonald’s confirmed on Thursday, Oct. 25 that the Taylor Farms location in Salinas, California sent onions to one distribution facility, which lead to ...
Produce company Taylor Farms has issued a voluntary recall on raw onions in connection with a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald's quarter pounders. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Onions have been implicated in previous outbreaks. In 2015, Taylor Farms recalled a celery and onion mix used in Costco chicken salads after 19 people were sickened with E. coli. Last year, 80 people were sickened and one died in an outbreak of salmonella poisoning tied to bagged diced onions from Gills Onions of Oxnard, California.
In a notice to customers, distributor U.S. Foods said Taylor Farms announced a recall on four raw onion products out of an abundance of caution because of "potential E. coli contamination."
The recalled onions came from a Taylor Farms facility in Colorado, a U.S. Foods spokesperson said. But the wholesaler also noted that it wasn't a McDonald's supplier and that its recall didn't include any products sold at the fast-food chain's restaurants. Taylor Farms did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
One dead in California from Salmonella and 76 more people sickened in 26 states. On August 3, 2011, Cargill recalled 36,000,000 pounds of fresh and frozen ground turkey products produced at the company's Springdale, Arkansas, facility from February 20, 2011, through August 2, 2011, due to possible contamination from Salmonella Heidelberg. [80 ...
Tainted green onions may have proven a ready culprit in part because of their involvement in at least one widely reported prior outbreak of E. coli. In 2003, green onions were suspected as the cause of a foodborne illness involving the Chi-Chi's restaurant chain in western Pennsylvania that killed 4 people and sickened 660. [5]