Odwalla_Case

Odwalla Case Ethical Issues and the Legal Environment of Business CASE TWO: Odwalla, Inc., and the E. Coli Outbreak Overview of the situation: In October of 1996, Odwalla was informed that their juice might be the cause of a dozen cases of E. Coli poisoning in the Seattle area. Based on interviews from the families, the health officials identified the bacteria to be associated with Odwalla apple juice. The officials do not have any proof of the bacteria, and that it may be a while until they know anything for sure. Health officials haven’t even made public announcement or even ordered a product recall yet. No one was precisely sure on how much a recall would cost or how much a recall would hurt the company. They aren’t really sure which lots were affected, or what was out there in the consumers’ hands. Odwalla, Inc. now has a big problem: Did Odwalla produce apple juice containing the E. Coli bacterium' Company Overview: Odwalla, Inc. A jazz musician named Greg Seltenpohl, his wife, and a friend, in 1980, founded the company. It started with fresh-squeezed orange juice in a backyard shed and expanded to a 65,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility odwalla, recall, juice, because, coli, apple, public, company, option, nothing, doing, alternative, know, juices, product, issue, sure, state, quality, people, out, officials, health, even, costs, consumers, best, bacteria, associated, solution, sick, problem, private, nature, make