Odwalla has contended that pasteurization hurts the taste and nutrients in the juice drinks. "We are not philosophically opposed to using it for part of our production," Steltenpohl said. The company, which has shunned pasteurization in its natural approach to producing juice, is considering switching to the heat cleansing process to ensure dangerous organisms such as E. Odwalla recalled its apple-based and carrot juice products in seven Western states and Canada last week after its apple juice was linked to the E. Bernard said he didn't know where the apples used in the contaminated apple juice had come from. The firm manufactures its beverages at a plant in Dinuba, Tulare County. The company typically does not accept apples that have fallen to the ground, but the bacteria may have been transmitted secondhand by a picker, Steltenpohl said. The source of the contamination likely is feces from cows or deer that wandered through apple orchards, company founder Greg Steltenpohl said Monday at a news conference in Denver. It's a key piece of information we've been waiting for." Cow or deer dung Now, we have some definitive information and we can start focusing our investigation and working with the FDA to see what happened. Randy Wykoff.ĭavid Bernard, spokesman for Half Moon Bay-based Odwalla, said of the FDA announcement: "Frankly, we're pleased and relieved. coli O157:H7 found in the bottle, said FDA spokesman Dr.
coli extracted from the patients' blood with the structure of the E. Scientists will compare the genetic structure of E. coli found in the bottle is the same strain as that suspected of sickening the patients. The firm has since represented additional children injured during the outbreak in claims against the company.However, a genetic test is needed to confirm that the E. The majority of claims were resolved in early 2000 for a reported $12 million. coli attorneys represented several children who suffered HUS and permanent kidney damage as a result of drinking E. As a direct result of the outbreak, Odwalla began pasteurizing its juices, and the federal government now requires warning labels to be placed on all unpasteurized fruit and vegetable juice containers. The company plead guilty to 16 federal criminal charges and agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine.
In 1998, Odwalla was indicted and held criminally liable for the 1996 E. FDA also found that the Odwalla plant accepted decayed fruit from suppliers.
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coli bacteria at Odwalla’s Dinuba, California, plant however, FDA investigators did find numerous health and safety code violations that may have contributed to the spread of E. Of the reported cases, more than a dozen developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), and one child died.Įnvironmental investigations by state and federal agencies did not uncover the exact source of the E. Investigators from the Washington Department of Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and other public health agencies conducted an epidemiologic investigation into the outbreak, and through testing found that more than 65 individuals were confirmed infected with E. coli O157:H7 were linked to the consumption of Odwalla brand unpasteurized apple juice by the Seattle-King County Department of Public Health. The recall was initiated after 13 reported cases of E. In October of 1996, Odwalla and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the company was recalling all Odwalla juice products containing unpasteurized apple juice.
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