According to the lawsuit, a woman ate French lentils on Friday and then removed her gallbladder.
Victims werehundredpeople who reported severe abdominal pain after eating frozen products manufactured by a New York City-based vegan food delivery company, with the support of their celebrities. Those include Gwyneth Paltrow and Serena Williams. , Bobby Flay and Shaun White.
Last week, Daily Harvest recalled 28,000 units of "crumble" after 470 customers reported to the company that they had side effects, including gastrointestinal problems.
Other customers reported their experiences on social media platforms and described severe pain and a trip to the emergency room. A victim's post — Abigail Silverman, Digital Creative Director of Cosmopolitan Magazine — was talked about inTikTok.
Like many other influencers, Silberman received a free package of items from Daily Harvest and made her ill and landed in her hospital.
According to a lawsuit filed on Sunday in the southern United States. Carol Ann Lady of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was taken to the hospital by her husband on May 30 and tested by a doctor showing "liver and gallbladder dysfunction" and that she could suffer. Therefore, I was hospitalized for 4 days. Pain from "indefinitely" condition.
After a few weeks, the proceedings alleged that Lady was advised to remove her gallbladder "rather than trying to manage her pain."
Ready ’s is the first proceeding against New York-based Daily Harvest, according to her lawyer, Bill Marler. He told the post that he was held by 75 people "mostly in the same story as Lady" and "the rest of the products to determine which ingredients in these products cause such a thing." I'm testing about 20 of them. Severe symptoms. "
Other customers also describe "debilitating" abdominal painAs a Reddit social media post, fever and generalized itching.According to a social media post, the Food and Drug Administration is also investigating and testing products for the mysterious illness that has made customers sick.
Daily Harvest, a gluten-free vegan frozen meal maker, was founded in 2015 and raised $ 43 million two years later from a private equity fund and a celebrity investor.
Daily Harvest said in a statement last week, "We are working closely with the FDA and several independent laboratories to" underlie this. "
The company did not immediately respond to comments regarding the proceedings.
So far, no specific pathogen has been identified at the time of the outbreak, but the recall has narrowed the period during which the contaminated product was manufactured from April 28 to June 17. rice field.
The recall is as follows: As the Post reported, a number of other mysterious outbreaks that have sickened thousands of consumers who ate dry cereal brands, includingLucky Charmsand Cheerios.
In a statement last week, Daily Harvest said: Nothing is more important than your health and safety. We value the trust our customers place in us and our food every day.
