Jack-in-the-Box Outbreak

A food-borne epidemic that occurred in 1993 in Washington, California, Idaho and Nevada; 700 people became sick; 4 children died; the outbreak was attributed to undercooked hamburgers with Escherichia coli 0157:H7
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At the time of the Jack-in-the-Box outbreak, the company was using the lowest acceptable standard in the industry for cooking its burgers: 140 degrees.
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Beef Wars
Two weeks following the recall, Hudson Foods sought to cook and resell the ground beef that was contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7, a deadly pathogen that killed four children in the infamous Jack-in-the-Box outbreak in 1993.
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