1 Dead from E.Coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald's Quarter Pounders
cnn.com> information reviewed by the US Food and Drug Administration shows that slivered onions are a likely source of contamination
Meat 1, veggies 0?
Similarly, I’d feel kind of funny getting food poisoning from a salad and not my burger.
Burgers are cooked, salads aren't. If we were regularly eating tartare I'm sure meat would be far more dangerous than salad.
The slivered onions are only used for quarter pounders. They just sprinkle a few on the glop of ketchup.
Honestly I expected this story to come out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania this week not Colorado.
Further discussion (20 points, 2 hours ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41918624
All the reasonable discussion is here. That discussion just has uninformed speculation and political posts.
Death by food poisoning is such an unfair part of life. Most don’t even think about it since it has become so uncommon.
I recently have been reading about food preservation (canning, mostly). If you follow all of the steps perfectly you’re probably fine. If you make even a small innocent deviation you might be risking your life & others.
And you would think a established food chain would be safer to eat than from the vendor across the street due to them coming under heavier scrutinization from regulatory food health agencies.
I've got to say I have an uneasy feeling reading this right after wolfing down a double quarter pounder with cheese...
Luckily Florida is not on that list... at least not yet
given how highly that food is already processed i wonder why they don't sprinkle it with some non-toxic antiseptic or antibacterial nano-powder or something along those lines.
That would likely cost more money than irradiating food[1].
1: https://www.fda.gov/food/buy-store-serve-safe-food/food-irra...