Federal investigators have identified flour as the source of a salmonella outbreak that caused a dozen people to fall ill over the past four months.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday that a collaborative investigation has confirmed that the salmonella outbreak was linked to raw flour.
The agencies have yet to identify any specific brand or brands of flour as being the source of the pathogen. Although most of the patients reported eating raw dough or batter made with flour before they became sick.
“Flour doesn’t look like raw food, but most flour is raw. This means that it hasn’t been treated to kill germs that cause food poisoning,” the CDC explained….