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Slivered onions are likely cause of McDonald's E. coli outbreak, CDC says
- bell-cot 2y ago> Prior to the recall, 900 restaurants had received onions from Taylor Farms, including in Colorado, Kansas, and Wyoming, as well as portions of Idaho, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Utah. That sounds big...yet far smaller than the recent Food Safety Fails at BrucePac - https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/theres-another-massive-meat-recall-over-listeria-and-its-a-doozy/ https://arstechnica.com/health/2024/10/theres-another-massiv... - and Boar's Head - https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/boars-head-will-never-make-liverwurst-again-after-outbreak-that-killed-9/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/boars-head-will-neve... . Should food safety regulations limit the size of food handling/packing/prep facilities, as a way to limit the possible scale of such outbreaks? You'd also need to limit the scale of inter-facility blending of food. And probably some other profit-maximizing stuff.