ed to the company, health officials concluded. Many of the illnesses occurred in Iowa and Nebraska among people who'd eaten at Olive Garden and Red Lobster. The outbreak was eventually traced to a salad mix from a Taylor Farms processing plant in Mexico.

Health officials also determined that Taylor Farms was at the root of a 2024 E. coli outbreak linked to slivered onions on McDonald's Quarter Pounder hamburgers. According to the FDA, 104 people were sickened in 14 states in that outbreak. Nearly three dozen were hospitalized, four people, including at least one child, developed severe kidney problems. One person, an older adult from Colorado, died.

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