HOW FDA’S RECALL SYSTEM FAILS CONSUMERS: As the FDA prepares to update its food-recall system, your host spent the past several months speaking to the many victims who fell ill from E. coli after eating soy-nut butter.
The product — I.M. Healthy Original Creamy SoyNut Butter — was a favorite for people with food allergies and compromised immune systems. But the product it contained a type of E.coli so dangerous that food safety experts said these were some of the sickest victims they had ever witnessed in their careers.