Costco E. coli outbreak related to vegetables in chicken salad

The FDA says a California farm is officially recalling a vegetable mix days after its product was blamed as the source of a recent Costco E-Coli outbreak.

As reported earlier by the Inquisitr, 19 people became ill with an E. coli infection in four western states, seven of them seriously.

Health investigators confirm a handful of cases of E. coli have been linked back to chicken salad sold at Costco.

Costco uses one supplier, Taylor Farms, for those vegetables in the chicken salad sold in all its USA stores. That sample was the same product used in a Costco rotisserie chicken salad that has been linked to a multi-state outbreak. You can contact Ryan at the national food safety law firm PritzkerOlsen by calling 1-888-377-8900.

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

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

Symptoms of E. coli illness include diarrhea, stomach cramps, nausea and vomiting.

“They are probably one of the better stores out there, which shows just how vulnerable a supply chain is to E. coli or salmonella”.

The products are being recalled “out of an abundance of caution”, company representatives wrote in a press release.

Seattle attorney Bill Marler, who is representing people sickened in the Chipotle outbreak, said the problem appears serious because two people have developed kidney failure.