McDonald's Pulls Salads From 3,000 Restaurants Amid Cyclospora Illnesses
14 July 2018 - 09:54AM
Dow Jones News
By Julie Jargon and Jesse Newman
McDonald's Corp. removed salads from 3,000 restaurants in 14
states after the products were linked to gastrointestinal illnesses
in Iowa and Illinois.
Iowa's Department of Public Health on Thursday said 15 people in
the state reported getting sick with cyclospora infections after
eating McDonald's salads between late June and early July. The
Illinois Department of Public Health said 90 people have been
sickened by cyclosporiasis, and that a quarter of them reported
eating salads from McDonald's before becoming ill.
McDonald's said it had pulled the salads out of "an abundance of
caution, " from restaurants that received shipments from a supplier
that had distributed the salads to restaurants in Iowa and
Illinois. The 3,000 restaurants are located in: Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska, South
Dakota, Montana, North Dakota, Kentucky, West Virginia and
Missouri.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in June that
it was investigating a multistate outbreak of cyclosporiasis linked
to vegetable trays made by Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc. As of
July 12, the CDC said 227 people had been sickened who ate the
company's prepackaged vegetable trays which included broccoli,
cauliflower, carrots and dill dip.
Del Monte in June voluntarily recalled a limited quantity of its
vegetable trays sold to select retailers -- including Kwik Trip
Inc. and Peapod LLC -- in six Midwestern states.
A spokesman for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said there
is no evidence to suggest the cyclospora illnesses linked to
McDonald's salads and Del Monte vegetable trays are related.
McDonald's said the supplier in question isn't Del Monte.
McDonald's said it plans to switch to another lettuce-blend
supplier and that it is cooperating with state and federal health
officials.
Cyclospora are parasites that can contaminate food or water and
are common in some tropical and subtropical regions. Foodborne
outbreaks of cyclosporiasis in the U.S. are rare and have been
linked to various types of imported produce, according to the CDC.
Symptoms of such an infection include diarrhea, vomiting and
fatigue.
Write to Julie Jargon at julie.jargon@wsj.com and Jesse Newman
at jesse.newman@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
July 13, 2018 19:39 ET (23:39 GMT)
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