Hundreds of people have been sickened, hospitalized and in some cases had their gallbladders removed.
41-year-old Luke Tashie is a marathon runner and healthy eater, but from June 8 to June 18, Tashie was hospitalized three times with elevated liver enzymes after eating Daily Harvest"French Lentil +Leek crumbles."
He says he connected online with other Daily Harvest customers with similar symptoms. The following morning he reached out to Daily Harvest CEO Rachel Drori over LinkedIn after learning they went to the same business school. In screen-grabbed conversations Tashie provided to ABC7 News on June 18 he wrote in part,"I wholeheartedly do not believe this has anything to do with cooking lentils... I basically charred mine..." and urged Drori,"This is a major public safety problem."
Due to the ongoing investigation, the FDA would not tell ABC7 News if or when Daily Harvest contacted the FDA.