Fast food stapel McDonald’s has had an outbreak of E. coli in both its meats and vegetables for its famous quarter pounder causing loyal consumers to contract E.coli. This contamination has already led to 49 illnesses throughout 10 states and one death.

E. coli is a bacteria spread through bad hygiene and consuming contaminated foods, like water/drinks. The U.S food administration has said that the main reason for this outbreak is likely both the thin sliced onions and beef patties used to make the quarter pounder.

McDonalds has taken swift action to take the quarter pounder off the menu and has stopped using the onions as well as the beef patties in the affected states such as, Colorado, Nebraska, Oregon, New Mexico, Idaho, Missouri, Montanna, and more as cases are likely to grow even in are our own neighborhood.
Many students of centennial high school go to the McDonalds down the street though many students don’t know about the recent controversy happening at Mcdonalds. Adan Diaz Quintero said, “ Yes, I would still get food from McDonalds as long as there are no onions on my food.’’ Adan then said, “ I think the root cause is the distributors and suppliers of the onions.”

The FDA said McDonoald’s supplier Taylor Farms issued a recall of four onion products due to potential E.coli contamination. Taylor Farms spokesperson says they are not the root cause of this contamination as they have done tests on raw and finished onions and have not found any traces of E. coli and never have. Taylor Farms spokesperson also said in a statement that they are working with the FDA and CDC to find the root cause of the contamination. Due to this contamination, other fast food restaurants have removed fresh onions from their menu because they are also supplied by Taylor farms.