Minnesota Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Chipotle Franchises
Though it is now reportedly safe to eat at the restaurant
A number of Chipotle restaurants in Minnesota have been linked by health officials to a recent outbreak of salmonella.
Some 45 people have been sickened, with five hospitalized, primarily in the South-Eastern part of the state, including Chipotle franchises in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Health officials say they have identified the possible ingredient that harbored the pathogen and have swapped it out. It is now reportedly safe to eat at the Mexican-themed restaurant. [1]
“There is no reason to believe that this product is available anywhere in Minnesota anymore,” Minnesota Health Department epidemiologist Dana Eikmeier told the Minneapolis Star Tribune.
“Chipotle has been extremely proactive in collaborating with investigators to quickly control the outbreak and identify its source,” Dana Eikmeier, epidemiologist for the Food-borne Diseases Unit of the Minnesota Department of Health, said in a statement.
Thirty-two of the 34 individuals sickened ate at Chipotles located in the Twin Cities, St. Cloud or Rochester, between August 16 and 26. The customers began experiencing symptoms between the 20th and 29th of the month. The ill ranged in age from 15 to 67. [2]
A spokesman for the health department says there is nothing to suggest that the outbreak has affected people in any other state, but information about the outbreak has been entered into a nationwide monitoring system should new reports of illnesses emerge.
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“This is an unusually large number of people who have reported [being infected] in such a space of time,” said Doug Schultz, spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Health, noting that the supervisor of the agency’s food-borne illness unit described it as “one of the largest he’s seen in 20 years.”
The Chipotle outbreak follows an outbreak of salmonella in 30 states that the Centers for Disease Control has linked to “slicer,” or American cucumbers imported from Mexico. Some 341 people have been sickened in that outbreak, including two people who died. More than half of the individuals who were sickened are children younger than 18. Seventy people have been hospitalized. [3]
According to the Mayo Clinic, salmonella infection is spread by eating raw or undercooked meat, poultry, eggs or egg products. It causes nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, diarrhea, fever, chills, headache and blood in the stool. [4]
Sources:
[1] Time
[2] People
[4] Mayo Clinic
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First they announce non gmo and organic food and now people are getting sick. Could be a connection there!!!!!! Rules to live by ditch organic and go gmo!!!!
Throughout our history, the industrialized farmers and their cutting corners to create profit have created incidences like these, which has lead to laws, regulation’s and the creation of alphabet agencies to regulate, FDA, USDA, etc etc.
The industrialized farmers and big business are getting carried away due to regulatory laziness.
Look at the demographics, that will provide the answers to the problems.
LOL, you sing a good song, but if you look there are more organic recalls than there are for the large industrialized farms.
Wrong, most of the recalls come from sources that don’t have the regulatory authorities that the US has.
More than likely, the tainted products are from foreign sources with little to no regulation concerning food safety.
Big business does this as a cost cutting procedure.
Here in the US the incidents are relatively few, be it GMO or organic.
You know if you get sick and die from it does it really matter where it came from? Simple fact is that organic recalls are rising dramatically.
I would recommend going back and researching beyond that which meets your intentions or mindset.
Most people stop researching when they have justified their own thoughts.
Your in error.
So if you get sick and die you do care if it is organic or gmo? Nah I still don’t believe you.
Humans are prone to err, your not.
Your research is infallible, which I can demonstrate it is flawed.
You are satisfied with meeting your own beliefs, denying others theirs.
You are willing to attack without remorse.
You and your teachings are not in line with preserving life, for you have no teachings.
Your operating off of a predetermined program, unwilling to sway.
You are not of this world and are willing to believe that poverty is the preservation of life.
You are not worth wasting anytime on, your acting for the demons of the Earth and against nature, based on your self centered responses.
I’ll leave you to your devices.
Enjoy your master.
Yes you have no real arguments do you.
A GMO troll……….
Anyone that doesn’t agree with you must be.
Don’t worry, GMO dudes have a program that they are required to follow.
GMO Roberts is the uncaring hating bully personality. They like him because he isn’t smart enough to get it.
I’ll bet he spits on homeless people as he drives by them in his escalade.
Only facts.
maybe at some point you will share some of them instead of the line of crap you have so far.
I did post the facts.
You might try disproving them and not applying your grade school bullying tactics.
Your whining is a fact I will agree with you.
Trying to get an emotional response won’t work with me, lmao.
Could really care less.
Your not paid to care.
Besides, bullies are lacking emotional resources and require extensive emotional education.
Since I’m not paid there is strike one, since I do care about many things in this world and my life there is strike two want to keep going?
Your an activist.
There is something in it for you, but since this is the internet, realistically nothing can be proven beyond your affiliation as an activist.
Activist tactics are very well documented and your following the playbook precisely.
Again your assuming I’m just some poor slob commenting on an internet site.
I could really care less who you are and your analysis of me is way off as well.
I know you don’t care. You are in need of emotional education.
And any analysis comes from you, not me, by your providing research able responses. Communication and analysis requires, transmission and feed back, the feed back is the key to assessment.
I just apply over 2000 years of study and theory’s to your behaviors, the advances within behavioral sciences has been amazing as of the past 60 years.
Your not the first bully history has ever seen, very well documented.
Stericycle reports organic contamination is on the rise.
Who is Stericycle,
Stericycle has been harshly criticized by residents living near their incinerators and environmentalists across the globe. Currently, Stericycle is being investigated by the state of Utah for burning hazardous, radioactive
waste above legal levels at their North Salt Lake location. The
investigations also are in response to Stericycle’s falsification of
records to hide the illegal quantity burning near Foxboro Elementary in
North Salt Lake.
Stericycle’s medical waste incinerator located in North Salt Lake,
Utah has been a topic of hot debate in the community. In September 2013,
in Utah residents in their call for Stericycle to discontinue their business in the area.
Legal authorities visit was spurred by a violation notice from the Utah
Division of Air Quality to Stericycle for excessive emissions above
legal limits, and manipulating their reporting to show lower amounts of
Mercury, Dioxins, and other potentially harmful chemicals emitted
through burning medical waste.
The violations in 2013 were followed by criminal investigations at the order of Utah Governor Gary Herbert.[5][6] Investigations by California’s Soil Water Air Protection Enterprise, or SWAPE, discovered Dioxin in homes near the incinerator at levels 16x higher than what is considered “safe”.
As of December 1, 2014, Stericycle and the Utah Division of Air
Quality reached an agreement acknowledging no wrongdoing, though the
settlement does require Stericycle to relocate approximately 40 miles to
the west of the incinerator’s current location in North Salt Lake. The
settlement also calls for Stericycle to pay a $2.3 million fine, half of
which is forgivable if the move happens within 3 years.
I don’t take reporting from environmental criminals.
foodsafetynewsdotcom lists all of the recalls, there are more GMO’s and polluted industrial livestock farms listed than organics. It would appear that those have risen far more dramatically than organic’s. Even some of the listed organics can be questioned, because they come from Mexico.
Little spin on truth by the organic opposition.
Enjoy the truth people.
You will get Cancer, and so will your children.
Some of the latest research says that whether or not someone gets cancer is just the luck of the draw. Eating healthy nutritious gmos certainly will not increase ones chances.
Yes research would indicate that everybody’s internals react differently, therefore cause is harder to determine. The Medical sciences need to be relied upon for future determination of the wide array of effects.
Thanks for pointing out that extensive studies need to be continued.
Maybe that’s why the GMO scientists are so hostile against the Medical sciences?
No keep going. Since there is nothing after twenty years to give the slightest hint of a problem let the full use and expansion go on for another twenty years to keep up the experiment. I knew you actually had some good thoughts.