In 2022 it seems that every few months there's a recall. It's a recall of a car, a recall of a product, and even recalls of foods.

That's right, it seems every few months a restaurant, a food delivery service, or potentially a product that's found on the shelves is being brought back because of a recall.

More often than not, these food-borne related recalls are due to contaminations.

These contaminations can be due to the food itself, potentially an employee being sick and

spreading it to restaurantiers, or it could simply just be bad hygiene.

But whatever the reason, it tends to happen pretty often.

This week is no different with a food delivery service being in the news

for getting around 470 people so far that we know of getting sick.

This food delivery service basically is a consumer direct brand that relied on a network of basically

online influencers to promote its products.

Earlier this month they had a voluntary recall of a lentil and leak crumble product

and numerous influencers have actually been starting to spread information

that they spent time in hospitals with mysterious symptoms that have been puzzling

both physicians, these symptoms have included gastrointestinal pain, and elevated liver enzymes.

Some of the patients even require their gallbladders to be removed.

When you hear about the symptoms initially, they have GI distress and some have jaundice.

You start thinking hepatitis A or potentially some other infectious cause.

However, most of the testing has been negative.

And as I've always said, it's good to never let a disaster go to waste.

And so in this case, I figure let's take some inspiration from the news,

and hopefully all those 450 plus people who did get sick from this exposure will recover and the company will do what needs to do to make it right.

But we in this week's podcast are going to go over food-borne illness and what you should do for your patients in case they come in and say to you,

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