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The McDonald's E. Coli bacterial outbreak has been linked to a farm in California and will be investigated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), per reports.
Taylor Farms, based in Salinas, California, supplies McDonald's with its slivered onions used in its popular Quarter Pounder burger.
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A statement provided from a Taylor Farms spokesperson to KSBW said, "We test both raw and finished products for pathogens and have found no traces of E. coli. We have never seen E. coliO157:H7 associated with onions in the past.
"Out of an abundance of caution, Taylor Farms Colorado removed yellow onions from the market produced out of our Colorado facility. We continue to work closely with FDA and CDC during this ongoing investigation. Our priority is the health and wellness of our customers and consumers and the safety and quality of our products."
A Quarter Pounder hamburger is served at a McDonald's restaurant in Effingham, Illinois, on March 30, 2017. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
While Taylor Farms' headquarters is in Salinas, it also has several facilities across the country, including one in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently announced that 49 people had been affected thus far by the outbreak, with one fatality in an "older person in Colorado." Twenty-six people who were affected are in Colorado, and nine are in Nebraska.
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Ten people are currently hospitalized in connection to the outbreak. One 10-year-old has been hospitalized with hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, per the CDC.
According to reporting from KSBW, Taylor Farms issued a recall for their slivered onions and several other products, including:
Customers are seen leaving a McDonald's location in Hong Kong. (Sebastian Ng/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Taylor Farms 30-pound bags of jumbo peeled yellow onions in a pillow pack. Batch codes: TFC278, TFC281, TFC282, TFC283, TFC284, TFC285, TFC288, TFC289, TFC290 andTFC292.
Cross Valley Farms 4/5 pound bags of diced 3/8 yellow onions. Batch codes: TFC277, TFC278, TFC281, TFC282, TFC283, TFC284, TFC285, TFC288, TFC289, TFC291 and TFC292.
Taylor Farms 5-pound bags of diced yellow onions. Batch Codes: TFC278, TFC281, TFC283, TFC285, TFC288, TFC290 and TFC292.
Taylor Farms 6/5 pounds bags of whole peeled yellow onions. Batch codes: TFC278, TFC281, TFC282, TFC283, TFC284, TFC285, TFC288, TFC289, TFC290,TFC291 and TFC292.
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Taylor Farms is also a third-party supplier to U.S. Foods, which told Fox News Digital in a statement: "US Foods takes food safety very seriously. Out of an abundance of caution, Taylor Farms, one of our third-party suppliers, has issued a voluntary recall for specific onion products produced out of their Colorado facility. The Taylor Farms recall impacts six US Foods distribution centers located in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska and New Mexico. US Foods operates 70+ distribution centers across the country. As aligned with our rigorous recall process, we have contacted all impacted US Foods customers with appropriate recall instructions."
Taylor Farms and the FDA did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The article has been updated and corrected to reflect that Taylor Farms is a supplier to, not a subsidiary of, U.S. Foods.