General Mills has
expanded its recall of flour produced at its mill at Kansas City,
Missouri, because four more people have fallen ill with STEC 026.
That adds another
strain of STEC to the food poisonings that now total 48 people in 21
states whose illnesses have been genetically linked to General Mills’
flour.
Parents are warned
to keep their children from eating raw flour, such as cookie dough
.
Children, the
elderly and people with weakened immune systems – eg. undergoing
chemotherapy for cancer – are particularly vulnerable.
The four new cases
and the expansion of the recall to include more processing dates
happened Monday.
