Green onions may be to blame for E. coli outbreak

Posted on December 7, 2006 by Hepatitis A Attorney

The latest E. coli outbreak may be linked to green onions distributed by McLane Co.  Tainted green onions also caused the 2003 Hepatitis A outbreak at a Chi Chi's restaurant that killed four people.  Full Story

Green onions grown in Mexico caused a November 2003 hepatitis A outbreak that killed four people and sickened 556 others, who ate or worked at a now-closed Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurant in Center, Beaver County.

McLane Co. is the sole distributor of all ingredients including cheese, meat and produce for Taco Bell restaurants in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and New York's Long Island. A company representative said federal investigators planned to test green onions, regular onions, cilantro, tomatoes and lettuce from its southern New Jersey warehouse.

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