Food Industry Gets Warning Shot Over Flour in Outbreak (1)

An FDA finding that tara flour is unsafe is a rare example of the agency taking assertive action against a food ingredient, and potentially exposes the involved manufacturers to criminal liability.

The assessment marked only the 15th time the agency has issued such a public declaration since 2010, according to agency records. It comes more than two years after a leek-and-lentil crumble product containing tara flour and sold by Daily Harvest Inc. sickened nearly 400 people. The FDA ruling, dated May 15, said the ingredient doesn’t meet the standards of “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS), a designation that food ...