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Markets, News

McDonald’s global sales fall on muted demand; E. coli outbreak fallout looms

By Reuters, Savyata Mishra October 29, 2024
McDonald's posted a steeper-than-expected drop in quarterly global sales, hurt by muted demand across key markets, including Europe and the United States where it is expected to face more weakness as the burger giant reels from a deadly E. coli outbreak.

(CNW Group/McDonald’s Canada)
News

McDonald’s rules out beef patties as source of E. coli outbreak

By Reuters October 28, 2024
McDonald's on Sunday ruled out beef patties as a source of the E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder hamburgers, which has killed at least one person and sickened nearly 75 others.

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News

Fast-food chains hold the onions after McDonald’s E. coli outbreak

McDonald's pulls Quarter Pounder from one-fifth of its US restaurants

By Brad Brookes, Reuters October 24, 2024
U.S. fast-food chains were pulling fresh onions out of their menu items on Thursday after the vegetable was named as the likely source of an E. coli outbreak at McDonald's restaurants that has sickened 49 people and killed one.

A McDonald’s restaurant sign in San Diego on March 31, 2015. (File photo: Reuters/Mike Blake)
News

McDonald’s US head vows to improve safety after E. coli outbreak, more cases expected

By Ananya Mariam Rajesh, Reuters, Waylon Cunningham October 24, 2024
McDonald's scrambled on Wednesday to contain the damage from an E. coli outbreak linked to Quarter Pounder burgers that has killed one person and sickened nearly 50 others, as it pulled the menu item from restaurants across a dozen U.S. states.

Researchers want to develop a treatment to address E. coli in pigs.
Livestock, News

Research team aims to deliver antibody for pork E. coli through plants

AAFC and Western University scientists work with biotech start-up

By Stew Slater February 15, 2022
Inspired by the success of a Belgian research team seeking a novel “immune therapy” approach to post-weaning diarrhea in pigs, a Canadian team is working to develop an antibody to […] Read more


A researcher checks a bacterial plate count.
News

Feed additive in development to reduce food safety risks

Plant-based vaccine could be less expensive to produce to control E. coli

By Lilian Schaer February 4, 2021
Technology that can produce vaccines and antibodies in plant leaves is being put to work in the livestock industry in hopes of preventing the development of a pathogen that causes […] Read more

(Candice Bell/iStock/Getty Images)
Crops

Canada adds step on U.S. romaine lettuce imports

E. coli testing to be required on Salinas Valley romaine

By Dave Bedard October 3, 2020
Canadian importers of U.S.-grown romaine lettuce will now face an extra step that’s expected to help prevent another outbreak of romaine-related illnesses due to E. coli. The Canadian Food Inspection […] Read more

A colourized low-temperature electron micrograph of a cluster of E. coli bacteria. Individual bacteria in this photo are oblong and colored brown. (Eric Erbe photo and colourization by Christopher Pooley courtesy ARS/USDA)
Livestock, Markets

Ryding-Regency’s federal beef packing licenses cancelled

By GFM Staff December 2, 2019
Citing “false or misleading information” given them during an E. coli probe, food safety officials have now permanently pulled the federal slaughter, processing and export licenses for Toronto’s Ryding-Regency Meat […] Read more


Beef sirloin tips are among the many Ryding-Regency-produced beef products now recalled. (Panainte Ancuta-Georgiana/iStock/Getty Images)
Livestock

New meat recall prolongs Ryding-Regency shutdown

By John Greig October 4, 2019
Ryding-Regency Meat Packers remains shut down, making an already tight processing capacity situation event more challenging for Ontario farmers. The Toronto company, along with St. Ann’s Food, announced a recall […] Read more

(PrevtecMicrobia.com)
Livestock

Elanco buys swine PWD vaccine maker

By GFM Staff August 6, 2019
Veterinary drugmaker Elanco Animal Health is expanding its space in the swine sector with a deal to buy the Quebec startup behind Coliprotec vaccines. Indianapolis-based Elanco announced Thursday it has […] Read more

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