Screen Shot 2016-01-06 at 4.50.10 PMIn December 2015, Chipotle was served with a Federal Grand Jury Subpoena from the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in connection with an official criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, in conjunction with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations.  The subpoena requires us to produce a broad range of documents related to a Chipotle restaurant in Simi Valley, California, that experienced an isolated Norovirus incident during August2015.  We intend to fully cooperate in the investigation.  It is not possible at this time to determine whether we will incur, or to reasonably estimate the amount of, any fines, penalties or further liabilities in connection with the investigation pursuant to which the subpoena was issued.

The Simi Valley Norovirus outbreak chronology was prepared by the Environmental Health Division of Ventura County’s Resource Management Agency. The first report of illness at the Chipotle Mexican Grill at 1263 Simi Town Center Way came to the agency’s executive officer by email at 9:36 p.m. on Thursday, August 20, 2015. A man said that his daughter, one of 16 students, had dined at that Chipotle restaurant and was ill. And, the students were all sick, and one was in the hospital.

The county’s chronology includes detailed tracking of the complaints as they came in and as the illnesses were confirmed as Norovirus. From that first report through September 25, 2015, the chronology comes to this conclusion: ”the total number of reportedly ill customers and employees at this Chipotle outbreak investigation is 234.

Here are the public records of the California Norovirus outbreak:

CHIPOTLE NOROVIRUS – CDPH records

CHIPOTLE NOROVIRUS – Ventura County EH inspection records

CHIPOTLE NOROVIRUS – Ventura County Epidemiology records