E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sparks lawsuits and onion recall across US

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E. coli outbreak linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders sparks lawsuits and onion recall across US
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A month ago, Clarissa DeBock fell ill with abdominal cramps, diarrhoea and nausea — but it wasn’t the usual stomach bug. She had gone to lunch five days earlier with her fiancé at their local McDonald’s in North Platte, Nebraska. The Quarter Pounder she ate that day looked and tasted normal, she said. But gastrointestinal symptoms landed DeBock in the emergency room on Sept. 25, and she tested positive for a strain of E.

“When you go to a restaurant, you are trusting that the restaurant did everything they could do to make you safe, but in this case, McDonald’s breached that trust,” Simon said. “I suspect it’s going to take a long time before they get it back.” If raw onions are, indeed, the culprit behind the E. coli outbreak, it would be the first time they are known to have been contaminated with this particular strain.

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