Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, KFC pull onions after E. Coli outbreak
YUM! Brands removed fresh onions at some of its Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC locations as the restaurant industry contends with an E. coli outbreak.
The company is removing the ingredient “out of an abundance of caution,” it said in a statement on Thursday to Bloomberg News.
“We will continue following supplier and regulatory guidance to ensure the ongoing safety and quality of our food,” the company said.
The restaurant industry is on alert after the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday that an E. coli outbreak likely tied to onions served on McDonald’s Corp’s Quarter Pounders sickened dozens of people in the US and killed one.
McDonald’s pulled the popular product from about 20 per cent of its more than 13,000 US restaurants, and it’s working with health authorities to confirm the source of the contamination.
Taylor Farms, which supplied onions to the impacted McDonald’s restaurants, recalled some batches of its yellow onions out of caution, even though it hadn’t found traces of E. coli as of Wednesday.
Restaurant distributors US Foods Holding and Sysco notified customers of the recall as well. BLOOMBERG
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