BREAKING NEWS McDonald's E coli recall spreads to Burger King, KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell as national chains are urged to pull key ingredient NOW READ MORE: McDonald's ingredient recalled as FDA finds E. Coli outbreak cause By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 22:07 BST, 24 October 2024 | Updated: 23:06 BST, 24 October 2024 e-mail 5 View comments Burger King , KFC , Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell have followed McDonald's lead and stopped using fresh onions in their foods, citing them as the most likely source of a deadly E.
coli outbreak in western states. Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and KFC restaurants, said in a statement that it has pulled onions from its menu 'proactively', noting that there has been no indication so far that anyone has become sick after eating from any of those restaurants. It comes on the heals of a Colorado man's death that investigators have tied to the McDonald's Quarter Pounder, which includes onions.
So far, 10 are hospitalized and 49 have fallen sick after eating McDonald's hamburgers in multiple Mountain West states. Investigators are now trying to ascertain whether the onions that could be behind the wave of illnesses were distributed to grocery stores, suggesting that the outbreak could grow much larger. The Burger King Whopper contains onions, though there is no indication yet that people have gotten sick from eating at a Burger King California-based Taylor Farms recalled several yellow onion ba.