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Authorities Open Criminal Investigation Into Chipotle

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Casey Harper Contributor
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FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California subpoenaed Chipotle as part of an investigation into a norovirus outbreak.

The popular Mexican food restaurant shuttered stores across the country after the outbreak at a California location, ABC News reported Monday.

Hundreds of people become sick after eating at Chipotle locations in California, the Pacific Northwest, Minnesota and Massachusetts since August, causing the company’s sales to fall 30 percent in December. Chipotle refused to comment because of the pending litigation, but told ABC News it will cooperate with the investigation.

“With norovirus, it’s a very abrupt onset – within a day or two – and vomiting is the predominant symptom,” Dr. Amesh Adalja, spokesperson for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told CBS News. “People often have violent vomiting.”

No deaths have been linked to the outbreak so far. Ashley Arellano of Gladstone, Ore., told KGW News she got sick after eating at a Chipotle near the beginning of the outbreak.

“My body was in aches, and pains. I was nauseous, I couldn’t hold anything down. I couldn’t eat anything,” she said.

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