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Posted on 02/02/2012 7:57:09 AM PST by null and void
IRVINE, Calif. - Yum Brands Inc.'s Taco Bell chain was investigated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for involvement in a salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states, Food Safety News reported Wednesday.
Citing a document from Oklahoma health authorities, the online newspaper -- published by Seattle-based law firm Marler Clark -- reported that the CDC revealed on Jan. 19 that a Mexican-style fast food chain was linked to an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis, but declined to name the company because it felt there was no public health reason to.
Food Safety News said a document from the Oklahoma State Department of Health's Acute Disease Service identified the restaurant chain as Taco Bell.
In a statement issued Wednesday, Taco Bell, which has more than 5,800 restaurants in the US, said the source of the food-borne illness that occurred in October and November of 2011 had not been identified by the CDC, Dow Jones Newswires reported.
"The CDC has stated the public health is not at any risk, and this incident is completely over," Taco Bell said in an emailed statement.
"The CDC indicated that some of the people who were ill ate at Taco Bell, while others did not. They believe that the problem likely occurred at the supplier level before it was delivered to any restaurant or food outlet. We take food quality and safety very seriously," the statement from the company, based in Irvine, Calif., added.
Oklahoma had the second-largest number of patients in the outbreak, behind Texas.
The number of ill persons identified in each state with the outbreak strain was Texas (43), Oklahoma (16), Kansas (2), Iowa (1), Michigan (1), Missouri (1), Nebraska (1), New Mexico (1), Ohio (1), and Tennessee (1).
Let’s send Taco Bell to all Occupy sites.
Wow! Remember what happened to Chichi’s?
How would you even know if Taco Bell food was tainted? I mean, doesn’t it always make you a little sick?
Sadly I remember from my youth when it was actually real food.
I never eat anything from Taco Hell.
WTF!!???? "No public health reason" to disclose which restaurant is poisoning people?
No. I rather like it, actually.
They serve breakfast now...
Yo queiro Taco Bell - NOT!
Otra vez?
My local Taco Bell didn’t survive the last salmonella outbreak.
Shut-up and eat what's put before you, Citizen.
...always notice an inordinate number of crows hanging out early morning hours around Taco Bell parking lots. Since they will eat anything that won’t eat them, and the employees don’t clean the parking lots very well....I can only imagine what the kitchens must be like......
My local Wendy's survived the finger in the chili episode...
” always notice an inordinate number of crows hanging out early morning hours around Taco Bell parking lots. “
Just don’t order the ‘chicken’ tacos...
Problem solved... ;)
I love Taco Bell also!!
I feel sorry for these poor people who don’t even know about the secret messages on the sauce packets...
The day you see a bunch of dead crows in the parking lot...will be one day too late.
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