Keep it clean

[George_Mills]

Chipotle’s [/URL]latest food-safety crisis—a federal investigation into possible criminal activity—is the result of what authorities are treating as a violation of disclosure protocols.

According to press reports, a Chipotle restaurant in Simi Valley, Calif., drew the scrutiny because it closed and scrubbed down the store before alerting authorities that employees and guests were suffering symptoms of norovirus infection. The reports, citing local observers, also noted that the restaurant continued to feed guests for two days after sending home an employee showing textbook signs of the illness.

A total of 234 people were sickened in the August outbreak, including 17 employees.

If authorities believe there was criminal wrongdoing, Chipotle will likely be fined and charged with a misdemeanor, according to experts quoted in various media reports. However, the matter is unusual because health-code violations are usually the jurisdiction of local or state health authorities, not federal officials.

The chain itself has gone silent on the matter, limiting its comments to assurances that it is cooperating fully with a subpoena for a host of documents.

George Mills

 

[d9phoenix]

IMO, For the feds to step in over the local jurisdictions generally means they believe the contamination was at a processing facility, and shipped across state lines.

Because this outbreak has now shown up in Oregon (or Washington i forget which one it was), Boston and now California i think the Feds have decided that they have to be involved and will work alongside each state agency.

When i heard about the first case, i wasn’t concerned. Then as we keep hearing about more outbreaks, now i am getting concerned. To me this says they have multiple infection vectors or someone is maliciously tainting the supply chain. Either way, i have my doubts if they will survive this.

 

[Georgiascp]

Chipotle has been having problems for a while now their first outbreak was with salmonella a few months back also happening at multiple locations. Their business model and their size does not add up. Chipotle is trying to be an organic franchise but they have been facing major supply problems not being able to keep up with Chipotles size and growth. I think somewhere along the way they have been trying to possibly remedy this problem but maybe not in the right way. Maybe they have been veering off their business model as far as food supply in order to not lose sales. This is just my theory. A while back I read that Chipotle has hit a ceiling because they are trying to be organic and farmers simply cannot keep up with them.

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