Taco Bell pulls green onions after food scare
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Fast food chain Taco Bell said on Wednesday it has stopped serving green onions at its roughly 5,800 restaurants following a recent outbreak of the foodborne E. coli bacteria that caused it to temporarily close nine restaurants.
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Renewed confusion surrounding the source of an E.coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell will make it harder for the Mexican-style restaurant chain to reassure customers that its food is safe and could prolong a damaging sales slowdown.
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U.S. health officials said on Monday they were not ready to declare an end to the Taco Bell E. coli outbreak that sickened at least 64 people, saying they could not confirm that green onions were the source of the bacteria.
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Health officials on Wednesday zeroed in on lettuce as the likely suspect in the E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell, though tracing the vegetable's source may prove difficult.
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U.S. health officials on Monday said they are not ready to declare the Taco Bell E.coli outbreak over, citing a positive test of the bacteria among a batch of white onions at one of the restaurant's location in New York.
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Nearly three dozen people fell ill, including 14 who were hospitalized, with symptoms consistent with infection by the E. coli bacteria after eating at a Taco John's restaurant, a local health department said. Test results were expected Monday.
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An E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell restaurants left the fast-food chain with a major damage-control challenge Thursday: How can it reassure customers its food is safe even as the suspected cause of the outbreak remained unconfirmed?
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As federal health officials investigate a deadly outbreak of bacteria-tainted bagged spinach that has killed one person and sickened dozens more, restaurants and grocery stores around the country are temporarily pulling spinach off menus and shelves.
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New Jersey-based meat processor Topps Meat Company LLC is voluntarily recalling 331,582 pounds (150 metric tons) of frozen ground beef products that may be contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Tuesday.
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Federal testing has failed to confirm green onions as the source of an outbreak of E. coli that sickened 64 people who ate in Taco Bell restaurants in the Northeast, health officials said Monday.
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Taco Bell has closed four restaurants in New York as a precautionary measure after a suspected E.coli outbreak at one of its New Jersey outlets sickened nearly a dozen people, the Yum Brand Inc. unit said on Monday.
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Lettuce was the most likely source of an outbreak of E. coli linked to Taco Bell, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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All 11 Taco Bells implicated in an E. coli outbreak used the same food distributor, the restaurant chain said Tuesday as health officials tried to pinpoint the source of the bacteria that sickened at least three dozen people.
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Traced to the Taco Bell chain, it was the most serious E. coli outbreak since contaminated spinach killed three in September.
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By Dawn House, The Salt Lake Tribune  Dec. 7--Taco Bell on Wednesday ordered scallions removed from its 5,800  restaurants nationwide after tests indicated the vegetable may be responsible  for E. coli outbreaks that sickened more than 40 people in New Jersey,  Pennsylvania and New York.
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Lettuce at Yum Brands Inc. Taco Bell restaurants was the most likely cause of an E.coli outbreak that has sickened dozens of people in the northeastern United States, an official said on a Food and Drug Administration conference call on Wednesday.
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Shares of restaurant company Yum Brands Inc.  will be in focus on Tuesday after a suspected E.coli outbreak at one of its Taco Bell restaurants, the latest in a series of food scares that have worried some consumers and investors.