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El Reg reports
Soylent, which produces liquid food for techies who hate chewing, has stopped shipping its gloop after some of it was contaminated with mold.
The firm started flogging version 2.0 of its formula in August, and has produced 400,000 bottles of the strange substance. It has since learned that 11 of the bottles had mold inside or on the outside by the time they reached customers.
That's a tiny proportion, however, on Friday the biz confirmed it's halting operations.
"During our record review process we did discover that the conveyor guardrail settings were not optimized, causing some bottles to move erratically on the conveyor, which resulted in small splashes on the external surface of the bottle, thereby allowing mold from the environment to grow on the bottle," it said in a statement.
"To verify that these findings were indeed isolated, we conducted physical and visual inspections, along with microbial tests, of 2,000 bottles in our distribution center and found only two bottles with the same defect. We have since optimized the line settings to minimize any recurrence of this issue."
[...] Soylent says that the problem has now been sorted and shipments will begin on October 8.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 04 2015, @06:30PM
Soylent is not a "superfood" - that's a marketing term, frequently used by MLM scams, for a food that is supposed to make you magically healthier than a normal diet would. If anything, soylent is the opposite of a superfood - the goal is to replace a normal diet. I'd call soylent a lazy-food - its for people who don't want to cook, or don't want to worry about making good food choices - it's the equivalent of Einstein's apocryphal closet of identical suits.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Sunday October 04 2015, @06:43PM
Exaclty, there is no such thing as "superfood". Seeing that on a label is an easy way to identify a product as being bullshit that is marked up 4x for no reason.
I buy a lot of dried fruits and anything with the "superfood" label is just a marked up version of the regular stuff.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by M. Baranczak on Sunday October 04 2015, @07:42PM