Bolthouse Carrot Juice Tied To Botulism Cases

POSTED: 12:45 pm EDT October 3, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The government is warning consumers not to drink Bolthouse Farms Carrot Juice in certain packages.

The Food and Drug Administration has linked a fourth case of botulism to the product in 450-milliliter and 1-liter plastic bottles with "best if used by" dates of Nov. 11 or earlier.

The latest botulism case involved a woman in Florida who was suffering from paralysis, a symptom of botulism.

The FDA said people also experiencing double vision, droopy eyelids, altered voice and trouble with speaking or swallowing should also seek medical attention.

http://www.newsnet5.com/health/9991201/detail.html

Hope this isn't a dupe. Did a quick search and couldn't find it.

(organic)

Organic Milk Recall

If you have any Organic Pastures Milk in your refrigerator, health officials urge you to throw it out.
The state has issued a recall on organic milk, after three children tested positive for the E. coli bacteria. Organic Pastures of Fresno has been ordered to pull all of its whole and skim raw milk from store shelves immediately.

Health officials say, while most of the milk produced in California is pasteurized, raw milk is not. They also say these cases are not related to the spinach E. coli outbreak.
http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=B4110D0F-5296-44A7-8D4E-8025D0111378

Here's a link to the http://www.realmilk.com/what.html">Real Milk website. It should help you understand why an ever-growing number of people are choosing raw milk. It also discusses how pasteurization destroys milk (calves fed on pasteurized milk will die) and why this practice only became necessary in the twentieth century with the growing industrialization of dairy corporations. They simply couldn't mass-produce and distribute milk without it becoming contaminated in a myriad ways and making people sick. So they just sterilized it instead. And of course this practice eventually led to the arising of super-bugs so now "ultra-pasteurization" was invented to combat those....

Modern processing and refrigeration makes pasteurization unnecessary now. Yet the problem still remains that you can't feasibly and cheaply maintain a corporate mega-dairy operation without having sick cows.

So Big Dairy will never support real milk and in fact works very hard to malign it. Which is not difficult since most people don't even want to be educated about what they eat. I suppose that's because they instinctively sense that it's a kind of Pandora's box that can never be closed again. And that it's ultimately only going to destroy the faith they hold in their chief god "Convenience".

sick from it.

about human nutrition.

Unless you're a calf who has figured out how to use the internet, in which case you're pretty smart.

with Osama bin Laden.

Beware the beets of death!

:scared:

First spinach - now carrot juice.

Got any ConAgra people at the FDA?

:eyes::puke:

their website now about the carrot juice recall..the number is 1-800-467-4683 to call regarding questions about the botulism breakout in bolthouse carrot juice.

http://www.bolthouse.com/consumer_home.html

I've already drank some and we have a case of it in our co-op cooler ready to mark for selling but now I think we'll just hold back on that..arg!

THanks for posting this, OhioChick, you might have saved some lives!

The apple/kiwi one. delicious. And their strawberry banana smoothie. I like to bring them to work on Saturdays, since the option of breakfast here is doughnuts.

I've never had their carrot juice. I hope no one else gets sick from it.

And there is maybe an 1/8 a bottle left in the fridge. :shrug:

Only foods made of unnatural materials. This way my food cannot serve as hosts for disease. It is simply inhospitable.

OR ELSE THE TERRAHRISTS WILL HAVE WON! :)

And while you are buying carrot juice, be sure to order Super-Size Freedom Fries, ok?

Don't hate America!

Do you ever wonder about the utter vanity and stupidity of people who pay to have botulism injected into their face so they won't look "old"?

It's been suggested how unsafe our food distribution system is...

I'm just sayin' :shrug:

I drink their Green Goodness every day. It's got all these fabulous nutrients. The recall doesn't seem to affect that product. Anyway, I always check the expiration date and keep it in the fridge.

a mod but it's really not the same article at all..it's a later one.

snip~
"Friday October 6, 2006 11:46 PM


TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Investigators believe botulism toxin from bottled carrot juice paralyzed a woman, the fourth person thought to be poisoned by bacteria in the drink.

The unidentified woman is unresponsive and has been hospitalized since mid-September, said Jylmarie Kintz, epidemiologist for the Hillsborough County Health Department.

Three people in Georgia experienced respiratory failure and remain hospitalized on ventilators since drinking the bottled carrot juice a month ago, according to federal officials.

The trio were from Washington County, Ga., and shared a meal Sept. 7 that included carrot juice made by Bolthouse Farms, the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control said Friday."

More..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6131152,00.html