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Two Adobo Grill restaurants in Chicago have been identified as the source of nine cases of the illnesses in the nationwide salmonella outbreak caused by tainted tomatoes, health officials say.
The Chicago Department of Public Health on Wednesday identified the Adobo Grill outlets in Wicker Park and Old Town as the source of a cluster of nine salmonella cases that were disclosed Friday.
Coincidentally, the FDA’s David Acheson has had his agency focusing on a cluster of nine cases that originated at two restaurants within the same chain and in a similar location, the Chicago Tribune reports. On Wednesday, Acheson declined to comment on whether the nine cases here are the same ones the FDA is targeting. Still, in an interview with the Chicago Tribune this week, he noted, “We have talked about only one cluster, and to date we are aware of one cluster only.”
With such a cluster, the FDA hopes to track tainted tomatoes through the supply chain to the source of the salmonella bug. While the FDA has said either Mexico or Florida is the most likely origin of the outbreak, it doesn’t know where it started.
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