The trade publication Nation’s Restaurant News is reporting that Applebee’s and Olive Garden are among five restaurant chains affected by the Christmas Eve steak E. coli recall by National Steak and Poultry company.
Previously, the only confirmed chains were Moe’s Southwest Grill, Carino’s Italian and 54th Street Grill and Bar.
The steak E. coli recall was for 248,000 pounds of boneless sirloin, sirloin tips, beef trim and other beef products. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service — which is not authorized to name restaurants that receive contaminated meat — said in the original recall announcement that the problem was discovered in an investigation of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with blade-tenderized steak.
Since then the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said there have been 21 confirmed E. coli infections in 16 states and that the outbreak is still under investigation. Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, South Dakota, Iowa, Washington and Colorado are among the states involved.
National food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen was the first organization to publicly disclose that health investigators were probing an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 associated with blade-tenderized steak. We have been in contact with one of the victims of this outbreak and we are accepting cases.
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