The outbreak is linked to the same E. Coli strain that contaminated onions used by McDonalds and other fast food chains last month.

Wolverine Packing Co., the company at the heart of a current E. coli recall, supplies over 250 meat brands with familiar names like Tyson.

Food safety officials are encouraging restaurants to not serve these products and say they should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.

More than 167,000 pounds of fresh and frozen ground beef products from the Detroit-based Wolverine Packing Co. are subject to the recall, the USDA said.

Detroit-based Wolverine Packing Co. recalled the meat this week after Minnesota state agriculture officials reported multiple illnesses and found that a sample of the product tested positive for E. coli O157:H7,

About 167,200 pounds of fresh and frozen ground beef products are being recalled over E. Coli concerns, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Wednesday. According to the USDA,

At least 15 people have fallen sick as a result of eating contaminated ground beef, and health officials warn that the products may still be lurking in restaurant refrigerators.

Over 167,000 pounds of ground beef are being recalled by a Detroit meatpacker after being linked to E. coli illnesses in restaurant goers. The beef was shipped by Wolverine Packing Co. and used in restaurants nationwide,