One Major Soup Recall Left One Consumer Paralyzed

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The Major Soup Recall That Left One Consumer Paralyzed By Jonathan Kesh Aug. 8, 2025 10:00 am EST

Soup recalls can affect millions of people at a time. Some of the more notable examples from recent memory have involved pulling large amounts of chicken soup from store shelves . However, these kinds of incidents have a long history, and unfortunately, the number of people who get sick is not always zero. One especially infamous recall involves a rather uncommon product — vichyssoise, a thick French dish made with potatoes, leeks, and onions which can be served cold. It's a vintage soup that restaurants rarely make anymore and is even harder to find canned in grocery stores.

In the 1970s, when the soup was more accessible, it was tied to a fatal case of poisoning. Du