Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. will, according to Edvard Pettersson of Bloomberg, pay a $25 million criminal fine to resolve allegations by federal prosecutors that its food sickened more than 1,100 people across the U.S. from 2015 to 2018. It’s the … Continue reading
In a previous life I was the scientific advisor for the Canadian Council of Grocery Distributors. We would meet a couple of times a year, and I would provide my food safety thoughts on what was going on at retail, … Continue reading
I started working when I was 9-years-old, biking out to the Brantford private golf course on weekends and weekdays during the summer and carrying a heavy bag of clubs around a 5-mile-course.documented my time in the bullpen, where we would … Continue reading
I started bashing Chipotle about 2006, when driving through Kansas City with a trailer full of stuff as I moved to Manhattan, Kansas, to follow a girl, and cited this billboard. Any company focused on this stuff usually meant they … Continue reading
Chipotle’s head of food safety, Jim Marsden, has been conspicuously silent after at least 647 patrons at a single Chipotle restaurant in Powell (no relation), Ohio, were sickened with Clostridium perfringens. As one of my colleagues said, Preventing C. perfringens … Continue reading
Chipotle appears to be linked to another outbreak of foodborne illness. Maybe it’s just two cases (according to Chipotle via CNBC reporting) or maybe it’s way more according to Patrick Quade over at iwaspoisoned.com. There are lots of things that can … Continue reading
In the summer of 1994, Intel types discovered a flaw with their Pentium computer chip, but thought the matter trivial; it was not publicly disclosed until Oct. 30, 1994, when a mathematician at Lynchburg College in Virginia, Thomas Nicely, posted … Continue reading
Amy craved Chipotle when she was pregnant. For whatever reason, 10 years ago, while Sorenne was forming in Amy’s belly, I would have to go on Chipotle runs. It was Manhattan, Kansas, it was easy to get there, but I … Continue reading
It would be interesting to find out how the glass may have made its’ way into the food product. What was the root cause that led to the possible contamination? CK Reviews Loblaw Companies Limited has recalled one specific lot … Continue reading
Joe Rubino of The Denver Post writes the man who turned a tiny burrito shop near the University of Denver into an international brand will soon be out as Chipotle Mexican Grill’s CEO. Steve Ells, the founder of the Denver-based … Continue reading