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The finding, which comes two years after hundreds of people were sickened, could offer hope for a broken system that allows chemicals into our foods.
This week’s announcement from the Food and Drug Administration declaring that tara flour is “generally not recognized as safe” and illegal to use could spell hope for a broken food system that enables unchecked chemicals and food additives to be put into America’s food products.
The FDA’s determination about tara flour comes two years after almost 500 people were sickened from consuming the ingredient in Daily Harvest’s French Lentil + Leek Crumbles. At least 39 of those people had their gallbladders removed.
Tara flour is a new plant-based protein ingredient made from seeds of the South American tree Tara spinosa. The FDA’s announcement about it wasn’t unexpected, because preliminary data following the outbreak pointed to this as the likely source of illness.
“This FDA report is consistent with the findings from our own root cause analysis that led us to discontinue the use of tara flour in mid-2022,” a spokesperson for Daily Harvest told Fast Company when asked for comment.
This week’s announcement from the Food and Drug Administration declaring that tara flour is “generally not recognized as safe” and illegal to use could spell hope for a broken food system that enables unchecked chemicals and food additives to be put into America’s food products.
The FDA’s determination about tara flour comes two years after almost 500 people were sickened from consuming the ingredient in Daily Harvest’s French Lentil + Leek Crumbles. At least 39 of those people had their gallbladders removed.
Tara flour is a new plant-based protein ingredient made from seeds of the South American tree Tara spinosa. The FDA’s announcement about it wasn’t unexpected, because preliminary data following the outbreak pointed to this as the likely source of illness.
“This FDA report is consistent with the findings from our own root cause analysis that led us to discontinue the use of tara flour in mid-2022,” a spokesperson for Daily Harvest told Fast Company when asked for comment.
