{"id":1051,"date":"2014-05-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2014-05-13T20:10:09","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T01:10:09","slug":"organic-mangos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/05\/organic-mangos\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Organic&#8217; mangos with listeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/a3e4ea1d7a5feef7d31420abe1df10be\/tumblr_n5cbrkEuVR1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The FDA gave <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/Safety\/Recalls\/ucm396074.htm\">the warning<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacorg.com\/\">Pacific Organic Produce<\/a>, San Francisco, CA is voluntarily <strong>recalling a limited number of cases of organic Tommy Atkins mangos<\/strong> (PLU numbers 94051 &amp; 94959) that were sold under the Purity Organic brand between the dates of April 14, 2014 and May 2, 2014 due to a <strong>possible health risk from <em>Listeria monocytogenes<\/em><\/strong>.<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Listeria_monocytogenes\">Listeria monocytogenes<\/a><\/em> is an organism that can cause foodborne illness in a person who consumes a food item contaminated with it. Symptoms of infection may include <strong>fever, muscle aches and gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea or diarrhea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Fortunately, there hasn&#8217;t been any victims so far. Let&#8217;s hope it stays that way.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">We know why <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/05\/13\/organic-tofu\/\">&#8216;organic&#8217; products are risky<\/a><\/strong>. We should do something about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FDA gave the warning:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[291],"tags":[111,112,237,97],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skepticism-and-science","tag-organic","tag-food","tag-health","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}