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Soylent (Green) Halts Powder Sales after More Customers Get Sick

From "Tyler" <tyler@facts.org>
Subject Soylent (Green) Halts Powder Sales after More Customers Get Sick
Message-ID <f75cf05a67a4eeaf33a77fce6110c4ce@dizum.com> (permalink)
Date 2017-03-22 02:05 +0100
Newsgroups ucb.politics.progressive, alt.politics.reform, alt.desert-storm, yakima.general, ri.k12.socialstudies
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It halted sales of its protein bar earlier this month.
Soylent halted sales of its protein bar after numerous customers 
complained it was making them sick. Now the company thinks 
something similar is happening with its 1.6 Powder.

On Thursday, Soylent wrote in a blog post that it would no 
longer sell the powder as it continues to investigate why some 
customers have fallen ill after eating their products. When 
Soylent pulled its protein bars from the website earlier this 
month, it said that no other products were affected. This may no 
longer be the case.

After customers complained Soylent’s protein bars were causing 
gastrointestinal problems, the health food company tested the 
product for pathogens, toxins, and possible outside 
contamination. So far Soylent says all tests have come back 
negative, and the company is now looking into the bars’ affect 
on individual food intolerances. Since some customers have 
experienced similar symptoms after ingesting the 1.6 powder 
(less than 0.1%), Soylent thinks the problem ingredient may be 
present in both products.

“This possible connection allows us to narrow the field 
considerably given there are only a few ingredients that are 
specific to only our bars and Powder 1.6,” Soylent states in the 
blog post.

The share ingredients in these products include soy protein 
isolate, canola oil, isomaltooligosaccharide, as well as various 
salts and vitamins, according to TechCrunch. Soylent says it has 
a plan to “remove the likely ingredients,” but has yet to 
specifiy which of these ingredients is making customers sick.

The company predicts that both the protein bars and powders will 
be back up on the site by the first fiscal quarter of next year.

http://fortune.com/2016/10/28/soylent-16-powder/
   

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Soylent (Green) Halts Powder Sales after More Customers Get Sick "Tyler" <tyler@facts.org> - 2017-03-22 02:05 +0100

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