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Is Chipotle a riskier place to eat? Hard to know

By Julie Steenhuysen and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – In recent months, Chipotle has lost customers, sales and profits after outbreaks of foodborne illnesses that sickened more than 500 people from Seattle to Boston. The burrito chain will shut its 1,900 U.S. restaurants on Monday for a meeting with employees to review a rapid overhaul of practices that it hopes will eliminate outbreaks of E. coli, Salmonella and norovirus. Food safety investigations in the United States begin – and often end – at the local level, and some states limit the disclosure of implicated restaurants, keeping diners in the dark.

UK’s first private NHS hospital provider Circle throws in towel

(Reuters) – Circle Holdings Plc, the first private company to run a general hospital for Britain’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS), said on Friday it was pulling out of Hinchingbrooke hospital in eastern England because it was no longer sustainable. Shares in the company were down 17.6 percent in early trade. Its decision, triggered by a crisis in the provision of emergency care across the NHS in recent months, is a blow to government plans to increase the role of private companies in British healthcare. …