Coli cases linked to Chipotle

Suppliers also would not be paying for all the new testing requirements started, he said.

Despite promises from restaurant founder and employees that the chain is revamping its food-safety plan, the truth is that people do freak out about food poisoning, and with all right. The company has dedicated a web page to explaining its renewed food safety commitments. He says food safety is the top priority right now and managers are watching to make sure staff follows health and safety procedures.

“All 3 Oklahoma ill people ate at a single Chipotle location in Oklahoma, and the North Dakota ill person traveled to Kansas during their exposure period and at the same Chipotle location as the Kansas ill person”.

The BOSTONHERALD notes that, So far, the agency said five people have been reported sick in the new outbreak, with illnesses starting between November 18 and November 26.

In the larger E. coli outbreak linked to Chipotle, some patients went to the doctor after reading about the other Chipotle cases, Dr. Williams said. November sales fell 16 percent from a year ago. Chipotle also warned in an SEC filing earlier this month that business had been “extremely volatile” and it anticipated sales falling 8% to 11% in the fourth quarter. An important date for investors to mark on their calendars will be 2016-02-02, which is approximately when the company is expected to next release quarterly results.

Neither of the Pennsylvania people who became ill reported eating at Chipotle, the reports said, but both had the same strain of E. coli that investigators believe is linked to the restaurant chain. That raises the question of whether these illnesses are linked to that first outbreak or whether it an entirely new one, the CDC said.

Chipotle has increased its food safety measures, which include testing all local produce before it gets to the restaurants and testing the quality of ingredients throughout their shelf life. It has not yet identified the ingredient that made people sick.

“The epidemiologic evidence available at this time suggests that a common meal item or ingredient served at Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants in several states is a likely source of this outbreak”, the CDC said.

“The Chipotle foodborne illness case will now be studied by restaurant PR officials for years if not decades to come”, Ivankoe writes.

“At this point, even rational and informed consumers could potentially be given reason to pause when choosing Chipotle over the plethora of fast casual competition in the marketplace”, said JPMorgan analyst John Ivankoe in a report Tuesday.