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.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 14 2016, @04:34PM
I think it was more a point about expecting food to only have the regular ingredients and not fillers such as soy and cellulose. Yes soy is a real food, but ice cream with 5-15% soy added to reduce costs can be legitimately called fake.