{"id":108830,"date":"2016-08-26T17:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/tropical-smoothie-cafe-sued-hepatitis-a-in-egyptian-berries-2\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T17:28:54","slug":"tropical-smoothie-cafe-sued-hepatitis-a-in-egyptian-berries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/tropical-smoothie-cafe-sued-hepatitis-a-in-egyptian-berries-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Smoothie Cafe sued: Hepatitis A in Egyptian berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dateline\">RICHMOND, Va. \u2013 \u00a0<\/span>There are now 28 confirmed cases of hepatitis A in Virginia linked to Egyptian strawberries used by Tropical Smoothie Cafe franchises, and lawsuits are being filed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A message from our CEO regarding Virginia area cafes. https:\/\/t.co\/cLjFqOnwyC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tropical Smoothie (@TSmoothieCafe) August 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<section class=\"mod-25\">\n<h2>More on this&#8230;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Scallops from Philippines cause of hepatitis A outbreak in Hawaii, FDA says<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>McDonald&#8217;s operator sued after diners exposed to hepatitis A<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"article-ct\">\n<article>\n<h3>Why are foodborne illnesses on the rise?<\/h3>\n<p>\t    \t<span class=\"type type-article\" \/><br \/>\n\t    <\/a><br \/>\n    <\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<p>News outlets report that the Virginia Department of\u00a0Health\u00a0traced the source of the hepatitis A virus to frozen strawberries imported from Egypt and used in smoothies in July or early August. The department confirmed that all the potentially contaminated berries were pulled from the 96 Tropical Smoothie Cafe locations in Virginia no later than Aug. 8 or Aug. 9. There are more than 500 franchises across the country.<\/p>\n<p>A Virginia man suing for $100,000, and others have joined a class action against the company, whose CEO Mike Rotondo has issued an apology.<\/p>\n<p><i \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICHMOND, Va. \u2013 \u00a0There are now 28 confirmed cases of hepatitis A in Virginia linked to Egyptian strawberries used by Tropical Smoothie Cafe franchises, and lawsuits are being filed. A message from our CEO regarding Virginia area cafes. https:\/\/t.co\/cLjFqOnwyC \u2014 Tropical Smoothie (@TSmoothieCafe) August 22, 2016 More on this&#8230; Scallops from Philippines cause of hepatitis <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/tropical-smoothie-cafe-sued-hepatitis-a-in-egyptian-berries-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}