at least one daily harvest customer attempted to warn ceo rachel drury that the companies now recalled product was creating much more than gastrointestinal discomfort hundreds of people have been sickened hospitalized and in some cases had their gallbladders removed abc 7 news i-team reporter melanie woodrow has more now on when and how the company alerted the public. 41 year old luke tashi is a marathon runner and healthy eater, but from june 8th to june 18. tashi was hospitalized three times with elevated liver enzymes after eating daily. service lentil and leak crumbles some of the most intense pain. i've had in my life. it felt like nothing. i'd ever experienced before according to the fda which is now investigating on june 17th, daily harvest emailed customers who were shipped the affected product and other consumers for whom the company had contact information the email stated in part a small number of customers have reported gastrointestinal discomfort after consuming our french lentil and leak crumbles. the email instructed lentils must be thoroughly cooked and added out of an

he reached out to daily harvest ceo rachel drury over linkedin realizing they had gone to the same business from somebody like myself could be really helpful in getting the word out. i pleaded to her the humanity of like if you're not certain. i'm certain i'm sitting here in the hospital. i've experienced this. i've gone through torture for three weeks in screen grabbed conversations tashi provided to abc 7 news on june 18th. he wrote in part. i wholeheartedly do not believe this has anything to do with cooking lentils. i basically charred mine and urged story. this is a major public safety problem drury wrote back in part. we are actively investigating and taking this very seriously as soon as we got wind of a potential issue. we asked all customers who have purchased to discard the product tashi responded explaining his condition was well beyond gastrointestinal discomfort and that he had to talk surgeons out of removing his gallbladder during wrote back in part. we will be in touch with the additional questions and as we learn more she asked if the fda had been informed to rate didn't an