… salmonella outbreak tied to tainted milk. And an outbreak in 2009 linked to a peanut factory sickened more than 500 people, eight of whom died.
Food-poisoning outbreaks have been making headlines more frequently than usual in 2018. Earlier this month, McDonald’s announced plans to remove salads from 3,000 locations after health officials pointed to the menu items as the possible source of a parasitic illness outbreak that has sickened 163 people across 10 states. Also this month, the CDC posted an alert warning customers not to eat any Kellogg’s Honey Smacks and asking all retailers to stop selling the recalled cereal.