Strawberry smoothies linked to Hepatitis A illnesses in Virginia

foodsafetynews.com/ ^ | 08/16/2016

[RightGeek]

Strawberry smoothies from Egypt! YUM!

[GraceG]

Ain’t globalism grand...

[faithhopecharity]

USA grows tons and tons and tons of our own strawberries. Tons of them! jyst saying -—we do t need to go 6,000 miles away to import them

[Doogle]

"..???..aww jeeez"

[DariusBane]

Buy strawberries from hajjis, get the hep. Who knew?

[rawcatslyentist]

Well, the queeranus commands them to kill us in any way possible. It’s their law.

[txrefugee]

We don’t grow strawberries in America??? We are sick and tired of getting sick because food companies buy cheap junk from other countries and charge us top dollar for the finished product. Every time this happens, the offending merchant ought to be sued out of existence. Buy food products locally or at least from other parts of the USA. About the only thing you’d have to import is coffee and tea.

[who knows what evil?]

Loads of nice fat strawberries at an East Tennessee farmer’s market just this morning...

[Lurkinanloomin]

There was a case recently of boneless chicken that was actually rat meat coming from China.

Be careful what you eat.

[DariusBane]

At the hajji behavior is lawful

[corkoman]

I wonder where else Muslim Smoothies has distributed these special strawberries??

[Lurkinanloomin]

Giorgio mushrooms briefly were sourced from China. They saw such a crash in sales they immediately went back to USA product.

[exDemMom]

I’m so glad I will never be tempted to eat strawberry... anything. Only fresh strawberries for me, thank you.

[Calvin Locke]

There’s a Hep A outbreak in HI that’s been traced to scallops from the Philippines, iirc.

[Mears]

I’ve been telling my kids and grandkids who love smoothies that they are nuts.

They should drink black coffee,iced or hot,as I do. :-)

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[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Smooth, and not in a good way.

[lee martell]

I did not know Hep could be spread that way, and that it could survive temperature changes, lie in wait, dormant and ready to inflict illness.

[Calvin Locke]

A couple of years ago, food companies were importing pine nuts from China to fill a shortage.

Different type of pine, affecting some portion of the population with "pine nut mouth", where just about everything tasted metallic, typically lasting days or a couple of weeks for most, to months for the less fortunate.

[lee martell]

ARE YOU SERIOUS?