Some may wonder how just a week's worth of flour manufactured at just one plant could be enough to trigger such a massive outbreak and sicken so many people. As website Gizmodo reports, flour is a lot different than perishable items such as produce.
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Flour is shelf-stable and used only a few cups at a time. That means that the flour we buy one day is likely to still be hanging around our cupboards months later.
Even more problematic for this outbreak, flour isn’t something that tends to stay in its packaging. It’s pretty common to transfer flour from its bag to another container—and then to just keep topping off that container when things get low. Usually, that’s no problem but, if just one of those bags is contaminated with E. coli, the whole container (and every subsequent bag you pour into it) is also now contaminated.
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So what do you think of this story? Will it change the way you look at flour and other non-perishable items that many of us assume are less prone to contamination than produce and similar foods?
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Article Source: Gizmodo
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