Fast-food giants have pulled fresh onions from their menus in the US after a McDonald's E.coli outbreak that killed one person and left 49 others sick.
McDonald's (MCD) reports earnings before the bell Tuesday, with investors likely watching to see if the company's $5 summer value meal succeeded in driving customers back to the fast-food giant after it said the promotion will run into December.
McDonald's is the latest fast-food giant to face an E. coli outbreak.
A Colorado man has filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against McDonald's over an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others.
Fresh onions are the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald's restaurants that has sickened 49 people and killed one, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said late on Wednesday, alarming some McDonald's customers and other fast-food chains using onions as an ingredient.
Yum Brands is removing onions from some Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut locations. The company said it has been monitoring the recently reported E.
McDonald's supplier Taylor Farms recalled some yellow onions due to potential E. coli contamination.
Yum Brands said on Thursday it would be removing fresh onions from its meals at select Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC restaurants out of "abundance of caution" following an E.coli outbreak tied to McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers.
Taylor Farms said it was pulling products "out of an abundance of caution" and that it did not find traces of E. coli as of Wednesday.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration was investigating whether Taylor Farms, a supplier for McDonald's , was the possible source of the E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder hamburgers, which has killed at least one person and sickened nearly 50 others, CNBC reported on Thursday.
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A Colorado resident has accused McDonald's of negligence after he tested positive for E. coli shortly after consuming food from the fast food chain, his attorney says, marking the first lawsuit against McDonald's since the company's hamburgers were linked to an outbreak of the bacterial infection, resulting in some hospitalizations and at least one death.