PRO/EDR> Foodborne illness – Canada (03): (ON) Canadian natl. exhibition, staphylococcal

Foodborne Illness — Worldwide/Unknown
The cronut burger was the culprit behind a massive food poisoning outbreak at the Canadian National Exhibition [CNE, The Ex] this week [week of 20 Aug 2013], Toronto Public Health confirmed. Dr David McKeown, the city’s chief medical officer of health, blamed the burger for getting around 150 people ill at the Ex on Tue 20 Aug 2013. “The cronut burger is the only food that was common to the people that became ill and laboratory tests have identified the _Staphylococcus aureus_ [entero]toxin in