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If you’ve been dieting with the Slim Fast plan and drink one or two canned drinks a day you should probably momentarily discontinue use or swap to a different product. All canned Slim Fast drinks have voluntarily been recalled by the company because of fears over bacterial contamination, which is associated with diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting. Presently there are about 10 million products in the market.

The drinks might be infected with the microorganism Bacillus cereus. Up to now the FDA hasn’t reported any deaths or injuries connected to the recall but an unknown number of people have gotten sick between six and fifteen hours after drinking. Although they improved by the next day.

Contamination presumably occurred in the manufacturing process. The pathogen was discovered and then the FDA was informed. The products are located nationwide and all Slim Fast drinks should be thrown out. They come in packages of either four, six, or 12 and in steel 11 ounce cans. But some cans are also sold separately.

All cans have been recalled. It doesn’t matter what the flavor, expiration date, lot code or UPC number is just get rid of them. But if you’re worried about screwing up the Slim Fast plan you don’t need to. All other products including the powdered shakes, meal bars or snack bars are fine.

The company is working on determining where the issue took place and what caused the contamination. Production has stopped until the problem is resolved. All customers need to dispose of their drinks. If not they risk the chance of being ill for 24 hours with very unpleasant symptoms.

In the U.S. everyone relies immensely on the products produced in factories. But the fact is that there’s a very slim chance of getting ill from the food we buy, but we really don’t know what is going on when our food is being made. We just have to put our trust and faith in the system and the FDA and hope that we’ll come out okay.

The trouble is that in industrial countries there are producers and consumers. In the olden days everyone raised their own food and would buy the few supplies that they considered necessary. And now there are very few people that raise a garden to provide for their own needs. Most of us don’t have the time or space to grow one so we rely entirely on others to supply our food and we just buy it at the supermarket.

So the fact that we have little to do with growing our own food makes us totally reliant on farmers and manufacturers. Especially if we’re on a particular diet like Slim Fast because then you only eat one or two meals a day and the remaining meals end up being a shake.

Diets enhance our dependability on products especially if only buy a certain brand. Branding takes a lot of money out of our pockets and puts it into theirs but it makes us distrust that when there’s a recall like this. But after this recall and the close inspections the plant will go through, these products will in all probability be the safest because they’ve recently inspected and upgraded in order to avoid similar problems in the future.

About the Author

Diane Johnson earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Utah. She is interested in distance learning and likes to write about the news, politics, college degrees, online schooling, and the college experience.

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Posted By: BelajarNulis

Tags: diet, fda, over the counter, slim fast, slimfast

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