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POM Wonderful juice pulled from shelves due to hoax |
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Filed under: Juice, East Coast, America  POM Wonderful pomegranate juices were pulled off the shelves by Wild Oats Markets in seven stores in Maine, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut after an animal rights group claimed it tampered with 487 bottles. POM says the claim was a hoax and that "So far we are not aware of any consumers who have become ill as a result of these purported actions."
In response to questions about the situation Wild Oats spokeswoman Sonja Tuitele said that "as soon as we get test results that demonstrate that it has not been tampered with, we will reorder the product and have it back on our shelves. We want to make sure the product is safe before we continue selling it in stores that may have been targeted."
The claim was made in an anonymous letter posted on a website for the North American Animal Liberation Press Office and said that bottles "along the Eastern seaboard in stores like Wild Oats, D'Agostino and Food Emporiums" had been tampered with and that the "contaminated contents of the bottles would cause diarrhea, vomiting and headaches, but not death."
This isn't the first time that POM has become the target of animal rights activists, supposedly they are outraged because POM funds research on the medical benefits of pomegranate juice and part of that involves animals. To the activists all I have to say is Relax, you'll live longer. Expect POM to be back onto store shelves soon.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
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