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The box could have had playful elements such as a mascot or a colorful design, which might have signaled the cereal to be fun rather than healthy. See Videtto, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43114, at *7-8 (fanciful design elements on Froot Loops cereal boxes, including the spelling of “Froot” and a mascot, signal that the cereal is unhealthy). Instead, despite sugar and corn syrup being third and fourth on its ingredients list, the box deceptively “tap[s] into the current health conscious message” by mimicking the boxes of serious health food cereals such as Kellog’s Special K. It does this through a similar white background, colored bar at the top, logo and check mark that seem to certify the product, and picture of the cereal. Compl. ¶ 14; Compl. Ex. A. While some might argue that the picture of the cereal clarifies what the product contains, the ingredients are unclear from the picture, and the rest of the elements misleadingly compare the product to low-sugar, high-fiber cereals. Similarly, the box claims “100% nutrition.” Compl. Ex. A. This could be interpreted as claiming that the cereal contains 100% of daily nutrition, like the possibility that “‘all natural ingredients’ could . . . be interpreted . . . as a claim that all the ingredients . . . were natural.” Henderson, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41077 at *31. Because of these factors, Plaintiff Dominik Sabach “intentionally chose

Dist. LEXIS 96108 at *7-8. The box mimics the design of health food cereal boxes, despite “sugar” and “corn syrup” being third and fourth on the ingredients list. Sabach, Exhibit A. This contrasts with Videtto v. Kellogg USA, 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43114, *7-8 (E.D. Cal. May 20, 2009), where fancifully design elements including the spelling of “Froot” and the mascot signaled that the cereal was unhealthy. Similarly, the box claims “100% nutrition.” Sabach, Exhibit A. This could be misinterpreted to mean that the cereal contains 100% of daily nutrition, like the possibility that “‘all natural ingredients’ could … be interpreted … as a claim that all the ingredients in the product were natural.” Henderson, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 41077 at *31. Dominik Sabach implies that because of these factors, “he intentionally chose “Complete Blueberry Pomegranate” over other cereals…. Based on looking at the cereal boxes, Dominik believed that … other cereals … were likely to contain greater quantities of sugar and artificial sweeteners.” Sabach at 8. Thus, this packaging is “false, misleading, and reasonably likely to deceive the public.” Id. at

* Weaknesses - Weaknesses are the assets which would prevent the sandwich/snack bar from accomplishing their specific mission and achieving their full potential. These weaknesses decline influences on the organisations success and growth in the economy. Weaknesses in an organization may be a criticizing machinery, insufficient research and development facilities, narrow product range, poor decision-making, etc. However these are controllable which must be eliminated. An example of The sandwich/snack bars organisational weaknesses are huge debts, high employee turnover, complex decision making process, narrow product range, large wastage of raw materials, etc. The business must ensure that prices of sandwiches and other products are reasonable and affordable in order to ensure consistency in sales and to meet costs.

Due to the alarming lack of attention and care to the raisings of meats used in fast food restaurants, foodborne illnesses can and have appeared in items from places like Taco Bell and Jack in the Box. These diseases can then spread rapidly among the community as family members, classmates, coworkers, and even strangers come in contact, direct or indirect, with the infected: “People have been infected by drinking contaminated water, by swimming in a contaminated lake, by playing at a contaminated water park, by crawling on a contaminated carpet” (201). Schlosser reveals how vulnerable communities are to foodborne outbreaks - areas as small as a neighborhood or as large as a state are all susceptible to an outbreak. Because of this, people should be more careful of what they eat and should be more aware of where their food really comes from, both for their own sake and their

The consumption of fruits and vegetables have been regarded as a case contributing to the foodborne microbial disease outbreak. The contributor of the largest number of outbreak reported is melon. There were three outbreaks associated with melon including an outbreak of listeriosis in melon in 2009 which caused 9 people received treatment and 2 died, an outbreak of salmonella saintpaul in the same year, nearly 100 suspected and confirmed cases, 9 people received treatment and other suspected in outbreak of Cyclospora in 2010 resulting in at least 314 people becoming ill.There was an outbreak report of hepatitis in 2009, which is one of the largest foodborne disease outbreaks related to the consumption of fruit in Australia. This outbreak caused

The food industry has changed drastically over the last decades. There are more Unnatural substances that change the appearance and taste of the food that we eat. The movie Food, Inc. has shown the low standards of the food industry that must change. Even though some products may be advertised as being healthy, it may indeed be the opposite of what you expected. Quality has to come from the beginning however, the may the food industry in run it has already failed from the beginning.

Initially, the outbreak and recall was set for bagged spinach on September 14th, but the very next day the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recalled all spinach, both bagged and fresh. The outbreak was due to a suspected E. coli O157:H7. Because of the outbreak, 200 people were reported to the CDC from 26 states as having been infected with that particular outbreak strain; more than 100 of those cases were hospitalized, and 31 of them developed a form of kidney failure, which resulted in the deaths of three people. So why is a breakout that may only have affected 200 people so important and relevant to everyone? It’s important to make sure that our food is edible and not contaminated because in this situation with spinach—according to data collected through surveys— nearly half (48%) of Americans reported that they ate fresh spinach before the recall and did so frequently. There was no complete resolution on the exact cause of E. Coli on spinach, but it was believed to be from samples taken from a stream and from feces of cattle and wild pigs present on ranches, due to a genetic match from those who were infected. For some consumers, the spinach recall may be a type of “signal event” indicating a wider problem that they do not yet see as having been solved. Although spinach is something that is generally looked at as “healthy” to its consumers, it is apparent that there is still a problem with the safety and health concerning fresh produce for the public. This occurrence in 2006 was a turning point for many, realizing that even what should be our freshest food can be contaminated, and that more effort needs to be taken in order to protect the public from

It is recommended that Frito-Lay’s (FLD) aggressively promote its current line of shelf-stable, “chip dip” products and should not enter the “vegetable dip” market until a future date.

The lack of oversight in waste management and sanitation has led to the contamination of the food supply. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, “Farms that are not properly maintained can be breeding grounds for salmonella and E. coli, which are passed to humans through meat, dairy and eggs” (ASPCA). Reviewed by Dr. Jennifer Robinson, salmonella and E. coli are types of bacterial diseases that affect the intestinal tract and some symptoms include diarrhea, fever and abdominal cramps (WebMD). This can be a serious food poisoning problem because if not treated wisely people who are exposed are at risk with dying. Each year 76 million Americans become sick from food borne illness and thousands of people die according to the ASPCA.

Though my hold out would end soon, once I found out that not only does this snack turn fingers red, but also stool. Unaware of all this information I consumed tons of this product, and gained weight, as well as produced red stool. In retrospect, if there were warning labels on this product alerting consumers of the possibility of producing red stool and becoming obese, I would not have even picked up this product. Nevertheless, I was blinded by the deceitfulness of this junk food company, and as a result, my body suffered the consequences of consuming their products.

Food safety is a highly overlooked yet crucial aspect of the food industry, as evident in the deadly 1993 Escherichia Coli outbreak in multiple Jack in the Box locations. Escherichia Coli is prevalent in raw and undercooked ground beef, which is a common food item on the Jack in the Box menu; the bacterial contamination during the slaughtering process of the meat lead to this gut wrenching epidemic (Wiley 2013). The horrific E. coli outbreak could have been prevented if it were not for Jack in the Box’s meat supplier Vons, Foodmaker’s vice president of technical services Ken Dunkley, and Jack in the Box’s President Bob Nungent.

* Ensure public safety: A majority of salmonella species can be inactivated if the restaurant chain operates at documented pasteurization temperatures. However, in the event of the infection reaching the public, there is a significant morbidity and mortality rate. Hospitalization and death rates can be as high as 33% and 3% respectively. (Schlundt, 2001) Exhibit 1 shows the number of Salmonella-related deaths and death rates in the past 10 years.

An area of particular importance to organizers of community health imperatives is that concerning the containment and prevention of epidemic illness. Especially in the case of foodborne illness, the root cause can be difficult to isolate. This is well demonstrated by the community health problem delineated in the article by Falco (2012), which concerns a recent and proliferating outbreak of a salmonella strain called Salmonella Bareilly. As the article details, the bacterial illness has now been spotted in nearly 100 cases across 19 states and the District of Columbia, creating a challenge of containment and prevention for a wide array of communities.

This has been going for years and years, and it has been said that eating foods like this is healthy, so we have to prove that it is not healthy and not good for people, as they will get some really, bad symptoms. These symptoms include:

Foodborne pathogens cause multiple illnesses and deaths in the U.S. (Jalonick). People are worried about traveling to different countries and getting sick, but what they do not realize is they have the chance of getting just as sick when they eat the food right here in the U.S. Even though our food is safer than in other countries, every year there are news flashes about foodborne bacteria causing a big outbreak somewhere.