The analysis is getting conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California in affiliation with the Aliment and Drug Administration's Office of Bent Investigations, the aggregation said in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Wednesday.
The subpoena, accustomed endure month, requires the aggregation to aftermath a ample ambit of abstracts angry to a restaurant in Simi Valley, California, that was the antecedent of a norovirus beginning this accomplished August, it said.
A Chipotle spokesman, Chris Arnold, said in an email the aggregation does not altercate awaiting action but that it intends to abet absolutely with the investigation.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. has been addled back an E. coli beginning affiliated to its restaurants in backward October and November, which was followed by a abstracted norovirus beginning at a restaurant in Boston in December. The cases accept accustomed far added civic media absorption than the norovirus beginning in California.
Chipotle said sales plunged 30 percent in December. The aggregation expects sales to abatement 14.6 percent at accustomed locations for the abounding fourth quarter, appearance the aboriginal abatement back the aggregation went accessible in 2006.
To adjust its image, the aggregation has taken out full-page ads answer to barter in dozens of newspapers about the country. It has aswell vowed changes to footfall up aliment assurance at its restaurants.
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