Costco Rotisserie Chicken Salad from Taylor Farms Recalled for Possible E.coli

The California-based maker of the diced vegetable mix, Taylor Farms Pacific Inc., issued a recall on the Food and Drug Administration website on Thursday.

Earlier this week we reported that 19 people have been infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O157:H7 from 7 states, primarily in the western US.

A California farm is recalling a vegetable mix believed to be the source of E.coli in Costco chicken salad that’s been linked to an outbreak.

If you like to buy and bring prepared Costco Rotisserie Chicken Salad from Taylor Farms for lunch, you might want to give your favorite sandwich some second thought! Between 10 to 15 percent of people with an E. coli infection will develop HUS which causes kidney failure, seizure, stroke and coma and death.

Four cases of E. coli were confirmed in Colorado, where one person was hospitalized. The illnesses were subsequently linked to chicken salad bought at Costco Wholesale.

At present, Costco is working closely with FDA, CDC, and health official regarding this matter and have also asked its suppliers to co-operate.

Tauxe emphasized that the agency does not have any evidence that other Costco food was contaminated.

Even if some of the rotisserie chicken salad has been eaten and no one has gotten sick, throw the rest of the product away.

Tauxe said both investigations are ongoing and he hopes they will eventually find the exact cause of both outbreaks. That recall shows that even fully cooked chicken is vulnerable to bacteria, if workers inadvertently contaminate the cooked birds with juice from raw chickens, Marler said.