Jamba Juice warns consumers about smoothie contamination

[Kadie]

Jamba Juice warns consumers about smoothie contamination

Tuesday, December 5, 2006 01 15 PM

(12-05) 13:15 PST San Francisco (AP) --

Jamba Juice Co. warned consumers Tuesday that a potentially deadly bacterium may have contaminated smoothies that contain strawberries.

The warning, released in consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, applies to smoothies sold at Jamba Juice stores in Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California between Nov. 25 and Dec. 1

San Francisco-based Jamba Juice issued the warning after one of its suppliers — Cleugh's Frozen Foods of Salinas — said that frozen strawberries from one of its facilities tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

The bacterium can cause sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and others with weak immune systems. Infection can lead to fevers, headaches, nausea, diarrhea and other symptoms in healthy individuals, and cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

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[Ron Green]

1. Why can't we just let industry police itself???

Right, Libertarians? Why the hell do we have to have the pesky USDA and other government meddlers tell us what's not safe to eat and drink and smoke?

Huh?

:eyes:


:sarcasm:

[Missy M]

2. What does that have to do with contaminated strawberries....

the company tested them and put out the warning. The other subject was about the government telling you what you can and cannot eat. That is a totally different subject. Of course people want the government to regulate food processors for cleanliness, content and freshness but not telling you what you can or cannot eat.

[Ron Green]

3. Sorry if my post was unclear. I've just lost patience with people who cry "nanny state" when

a government agency steps in with information that the Free Market would just as soon suppress. In this case, if Jamba Juice or its supplier of strawberries did the testing and took the lead in the alarm, then that's great. But many people even here on DU resist public interference in people's efforts to poison or addict themselves (cigarettes are an obvious example); and the line between "cleanliness, content and freshness" and "it's my body and I can do what I want" often blurs.