McDonald’s has announced that it is temporarily pulling its Quarter Pounder hamburger from menus in multiple states following a deadly E. coli outbreak that health authorities have traced to the product.
The decision, announced by McDonald’s USA President Joe Erlinger in a video message on Oct. 22, was made after initial investigations suggested that slivered onions used in the Quarter Pounder might be the source of the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has linked to 49 infections across 10 states, including one death.
