Ardent Mills has been the source of flour recalls by a
number of brand names, including Robin Hood.
Powell takes issue with the CFIA claim that there have been
no illnesses associated with the recall, noting that six people in British
Columbia were sickened by flour.
The national outbreak has affected 30 people
from six provinces: British Columbia (13), Saskatchewan (4), Alberta (5),
Ontario (1), Quebec (1) and Newfoundland and Labrador (5). One of the 30 cases
was a visitor to Canada.
The illness onset dates range from November 2016 to
April 2017, he quotes from the B.C.Centre for Disease Control on his blog.
Powell writes “Do you folks all
get your flour from the same place and slap your name on it like Trump slaps
his name on towers?
“If so, where is the common processor, and why the (explitive) is there
E. coli O121 in it? (It has many mills, including in Ontario).
“What are companies prepared to do, like offering pasteurized flour,
especially so the medically vulnerable can continue to bake without fretting
about flour dust?
“And when will the Public Health Agency of Canada move beyond
boilerplate fairy tales like wash hands, and offer something meaningful to
Canadians who bake?”
