Seven of nine people interviewed in an FDA investigation reported eating frozen blueberries before becoming ill; Five specifically reported the GreenWise product tied to the recall; the wider outbreak record contains 12 cases in Florida and Georgia, four hospitalizations and no deaths. [1]

Thursday's service brief limited the freezer check to a 10-ounce GreenWise package, lot 60401, with a February 9, 2028 best-by date; Friday's denominator explains why that narrow warning has epidemiological support without broadening it to every bag of frozen fruit.

Seven of nine is an interview result; it is not an attack rate, because the nine people were already part of an outbreak investigation rather than a random sample of blueberry consumers; it also does not prove that blueberries explain every one of the 12 cases; the five GreenWise reports are narrower still. [1]

Food-safety discourse can turn a small numerator into national danger, but the assigned X search found no verified fresh post to quote; FDA's record supplies the useful boundary: a specific exposure pattern supports a specific recall while remaining too small and selected to measure national consumer risk.

-- NORA WHITFIELD, Chicago