{"id":171069,"date":"2018-07-15T07:01:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=171069"},"modified":"2018-07-15T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-15T11:01:23","slug":"mcdonalds-removing-salads-from-3000-stores-after-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/07\/15\/mcdonalds-removing-salads-from-3000-stores-after-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s removing salads from 3,000 stores after illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_171070\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171070\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/17191680117_4763350c34_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171070\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/17191680117_4763350c34_z.jpg\" alt=\"McDonald's is removing the lettuce blend from identified restaurants and distribution centres. (Photo by Mike Mozart\/Flickr, CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/17191680117_4763350c34_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/17191680117_4763350c34_z-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-171070\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McDonald&#8217;s is removing the lettuce blend from identified restaurants and distribution centres. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/17191680117\/in\/photolist-scaRxT-pAPYsb-g681h-doC2ns-qxDKsF-aHgLYv-aHgMwx-4LrMek-3zFoD-6SZ5Rv-GwK84e-fxCYtM-AvpDU-haYwgT-aZ5Eo-jeJBS9-6FRaHu-6Qe1zy-ogTmCe-8KpRr1-ogM2g7-uovUn-d47RW5-8EAzGU-aHgMs8-SfcnXT-ebtKnY-orB8Go-aQqX3e-buS8XN-bnYoqM-TucwcS-7t8UT8-2qMPRm-qhYCv-ptGj1-77EEDi-4e5dg7-22KV6Bg-otmPDR-bjvaA-bjvaB-g8KMz3-kg8wbF-dFMU6f-onmLY4-iC7qrB-pEvne2-ixmRtb-hMgeWV\">Photo<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeepersmedia\/\">Mike Mozart\/Flickr<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>CHICAGO \u2014 McDonald&#8217;s is stopping the sale of salads at 3,000 restaurants after people became sick from a parasite causing intestinal illness.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago-based fast-food chain said Friday it&#8217;s acting \u201cout of an abundance of caution\u201d until switching to another supplier. Health officials in Illinois and Iowa say they&#8217;ve identified roughly 100 combined cases of cyclosporiasis apparently linked to consuming McDonald&#8217;s salads. The illness is caused by the Cyclospora parasite.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald&#8217;s is removing the lettuce blend from identified restaurants and distribution centres. At least one of the affected restaurants is in each of the following states: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Kentucky, West Virginia and Missouri.<\/p>\n<p>The most common symptom is watery diarrhea. Other symptoms could include appetite loss, intestinal pain, nausea and fatigue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO \u2014 McDonald&#8217;s is stopping the sale of salads at 3,000 restaurants after people became sick from a parasite causing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":171070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[4988,10482,53314],"class_list":["post-171069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-food","tag-illness","tag-mcdonalds","tag-salads","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}