ATLANTA — A new report from the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified Taco Bell as the possible source of the salmonella October 2011 outbreak that sickened 68 people across 10 American states.

“The CDC has stated the public health is not at any risk and this incident is completely over,” reads a Taco Bell statement sent to HealthPop, after the CDC update.

CHICAGO — Landry’s Tilman Fertitta has acquired 90 per cent of Morton’s shares in an effort to buy the popular steakhouse without shareholder approval.

Fertitta announced his intention to buy the steakhouse in December for an estimated $116.6 million. It appears that although the Board had unanimously approved the deal, a number of shareholders were against it and tried to block it.

WASHINGTON — Chicken wings, pizza, salsa, dips and nachos are being pegged as popular take-out foods that will be consumed during this weekend’s faceoff between New England and New York at Super Bowl 46, according to a National Restaurant Association (NRA) survey.

OAK BROOK, Ill. — McDonald’s is changing its burger recipe.

Coincidently, Jamie Oliver blasted the chain’s use of ammonium hydroxide (“pink slime”) as filler in its burgers on his TV series, Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution, asking why the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would allow the use of this additive. After months of campaigning, McDonald’s announced it would be removing the additive from its burgers.