San Antonio family files lawsuit against Torchy’s Tacos after child hospitalized from salmonella, report says

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The lad developed aggregate wellness conditions aft eating contaminated onions, suit documents say

Pictured is simply a Torchy's Tacos restaurant.

SAN ANTONIO – A household has filed a suit against a Torchy’s Tacos edifice connected the acold North Side aft a young lad was hospitalized successful intensive attraction aft contracting salmonella from eating contaminated onions, according to a study from the San Antonio Current.

According to the lawsuit, filed by Ching-yi Ortiz connected behalf of her son, the lad got sick aft eating astatine a Torchy’s Tacos edifice astatine 18210 Sonterra Place connected Aug. 21. Torchy’s, its genitor institution Success Foods Management Group LLC and ProSource Produce LLC are named successful the lawsuit.

According to lawsuit documents, the household is seeking compensation to assistance screen the aesculapian costs, symptom and suffering, intelligence anguish, carnal impairment, and more.

The kid began to acquisition “exhaustion and a headache,” six days aft eating astatine the restaurant, the suit states. His symptoms continued to advancement implicit the adjacent 10 days aft helium developed “a fever, diarrhea, and aggravated symptom successful his little back.”

The concern worsened connected Sept. 7, erstwhile the lad was “in specified aggravated symptom helium could not locomotion oregon beryllium up,” according to tribunal documents. He was past taken to Methodist Children’s Hospital, wherever helium was treated for salmonella complications successful the ICU.

“The corruption caused (the child) to make sepsis, organ failure, pneumonia, acidosis, thrombocytopenia, a pericardial effusion, interstitial emphysema, and caused (the child) utmost symptom erstwhile it reached the bones astir his sacroiliac joint,” the suit states.

The CDC issued a nutrient information alert for the recalled onions connected Oct. 22 aft ProSource Produce LLC and Keeler Family Farms recalled full earthy red, achromatic and yellowish onions that were imported from Chihuahua, Mexico. The onions, past imported connected Aug. 31, were sold and distributed to restaurants and market stores nationwide, including Torchy’s.

Businesses that received the onions were urged by the CDC to cheque retention coolers for the onions and to propulsion them distant and, to lavation and sanitize immoderate surfaces the onions whitethorn person travel successful interaction with.

KSAT has reached retired to Torchy’s for a connection but we person not yet heard back. The edifice did contented a connection to the SA Current, saying it has a “uniform grounds of fantabulous wellness inspection scores.”

“Our thoughts are with this impermanent and his family, and we anticipation for continued recovery,” Torchy’s added successful the statement.

We’ll bring much updates to this communicative arsenic they go available.