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The food vendor at the Canadian National Exhibition responsible for this year’s international headline-garnering Cronut Burger was shut down Tuesday night after about 34 people displayed symptoms of food-borne gastrointestinal illness.

While Toronto Public Health has not confirmed the Cronut Burger is behind the outbreak, Epic Burgers and Waffles is the “focus” of their investigation and the only vendor closed for inspection, a spokesperson says.

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“Toronto Public Health food safety inspectors are currently there doing our own investigation,” spokesperson Kris Scheuer said Wednesday morning. “We don’t yet know until we do the food samples and talk to staff … to know if [the Cronut Burger] is the cause of the illness.

“But that is the focus of the investigation and that place is still closed, so it is not a further health hazard at the moment.”

Dr. Lisa Berger, the city’s associate medical officer of health, said Toronto Public Health is only looking at Epic Burger right now, but can’t say where the investigation will go.