Coli from Costco chicken salad traced to tainted celery

Salinas Taylor Farms is recalling a wide range of products after its celery and onion diced blend was linked to an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 19 people in seven states.

The recall was “out of an abundance of caution”, the FDA said in a statement. The company posted notices in its stores and provided information to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to try and find exactly where the outbreak originated.

The Associated Press contributed to this article.

The strain of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli can be life-threatening, but no deaths have been reported.

The product is labeled “Chicken Salad made with Rotisserie Chicken” and has the item number 37719 on the label.

In September, the Food and Drug Administration issued sweeping new rules that will require U.S. food manufacturers to implement more stringent food-safety operations and preventive measures to avert deadly outbreaks of food-borne illnesses like listeria and salmonella.

A lengthy list of Taylor Farm products was recalled after a sample taken by the Montana Department of Health, testing positive for E. coli 0157:H7. The illness reports began on October 6 and involved people from age 5 to 84, the CDC said.

Costco announced that has stopped the sale of chicken salad. Five victims were hospitalized and two developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure. Our E. coli lawyers have litigated E. coli and HUS cases stemming from outbreaks traced to ground beef, raw milk, lettuce, spinach, sprouts, and other food products. Symptoms usually set in one to three days after exposure and last about a week. Now, it is found that the multi-state outbreak is the result of a celery-and-onion in the chicken salad. Symptoms can include abdominal cramps and diarrhea, which can sometimes be bloody.