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ON THE ILLNESS THAT CAME FROM
THE TAINTED LETTUCE.
>> THE FDA SPOKESPERSON IS
TELLING US THE NAME OF TWO
RESTAURANTS, THEY'RE OLIVE
GARDEN AND RED LOBSTER.
BOTH ARE PART OF THE DARDEN
RESTAURANT GROUP.
IT'S AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION.
FDA ALSO SAYING THEY'RE
MONITORING LEAFY GREEN PRODUCE
COMING IN FROM MEXICO TO THE
UNITED STATES.
WOLF, THIS IS PART OF A TRACE
BACK INVESTIGATION.
THEY'VE SPENT SOME TIME NOW
TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW THESE
PEOPLE WERE GETTING SICK,
FIGURING OUT THE PRODUCE THAT
CAME FROM TAYLOR FORMS OF MEXICO
CAME SPECIFICALLY AND WAS
DISTRIBUTED AT THESE
RESTAURANTS, OLIVE GARDEN AND
RED LOBSTER.
THERE WERE FOUR SEPARATE GROUPS
OF PEOPLE WHO BECAME ILL, AND,
AGAIN, THIS JUST COMING TO US,
WOLF, THAT THESE RESTAURANTS, SO
PEOPLE ACTUALLY EATING THESE
PRODUCE PRODUCTS INSIDE THE
RESTAURANT.
IN IOWA, AS YOU MAY REMEMBER,
WOLF, THERE WAS A CONCERN ABOUT
PREWASHED, BAGGED LETTUCE AND
CARROTS AND CABBAGE ALL PUT
TOGETHER.
THAT'S A SEPARATE THING FROM
THIS.
THIS IS IN THE RESTAURANTS,
PEOPLE GETTING SICK THERE.
>> AND THEY HAVE CONFIRMED THAT
THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY GOT
SICK, ABOUT 400 OR SO, THAT AT
LEAST SOME OF THEM ATE LETTUCE
AT EITHER AN OLIVE GARDEN OR RED
LOBSTER RESTAURANT?
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
WE JUST GOT THAT CONFIRMATION
FROM THE FDA.
A SPOKESPERSON CONFIRMING THAT.
UP UNTIL NOW THEY WERE
SPECIFICALLY JUST TALKING ABOUT
THIS MIXED SALAD GOING TO THESE
SEVERAL STATES J.
JUST OVER THE LAST HOUR WE'VE
LEARNED WHERE THAT PRODUCE CAME
FROM, TAYLOR FARMS OF MEXICO,