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by thejacenxpress 3524 days ago
LA Times did a bad job of reporting this.

> warning that a handful of customers reported stomach sickness after consuming it.

It's actually less than 0.1%

The blog article is clearer: http://blog.soylent.com/post/152400464282/soylent-bar-powder...

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The blog uses the same "handful of customers" language.
> During our review, we noticed that a handful of consumers (less than 0.1%) who consumed Powder 1.6...

Very much acknowledge the blog uses the same 'handful' terminology but they also put a % to it. As much as I hate to think about it, I feel 'handful' sounds like more out of context and a news article would be less dramatic if they reported 0.1% of people were affected.