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Ars Technica reports, following online reports of customers becoming ill after eating Soylent's new snack bars, the company announced this afternoon [October 13] that it has decided to halt all sales and shipments of the bars as a precautionary measure. The company is urging customers to discard remaining bars and will begin e-mailing customers individually regarding refunds. In a blog announcing the decision, the company said it is still investigating the cause of bouts of illnesses of customers linked to the bars, including nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.
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Soylent Halts Sale of Bars; Investigation into Illnesses Continues
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(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @02:22PM
Soylent reported that microbiological tests on bars collected from sick customers all came back negative.
Those tests are only for bacteria. If the bacteria are dead but endotoxins [wikipedia.org] remain [wikipedia.org], people will still get sick. To discover these, you need to do a little bit more than try to grow samples in a culture medium.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @03:43PM
Yes, but it was a good first pass. Further testing is ongoing, but in the mean time they are doing a recall. Unfortunately its not a full-blown, legit, FDA recall. I think that's a combination of trying to avoid bad publicity (which is going to backfire) and being too new at the business to realize they should be coordinating with the FDA. Too much silicon valley style libertarian regulation is bad mindset.