Recently we received that dreaded call that a child had become ill with E.coli O157:H7 poisoning, and although they couldn’t say for sure, they believed over the past couple of weeks the child may have eaten one of our burgers.
The illness occurred on the other side of the country from our operations, and because the consumer did not have the product or packaging the CFIA (Canadian Food Inspection Agency) chose to cross the country collecting samples of all our burgers for testing. Although we didn’t understand the CFIA’s basis for testing, we of course did all we could to find samples and provide all of our HACCP records.