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Wheat flour a "new" carrier of E. coli (watch out for that raw cookie dough)

This Food Safety News article revealed two things I did not know: First, that ordinary wheat flour became a “new” potential carrier of pathogens like E. coli and Salmonella last year, after Nestlé raw cookie dough was blamed for infecting 72 people in 30 states with O157:H7. And second? Some people enjoy eat raw frozen pizza. “We actually had somebody in the company who admitted to doing this,” a ConAgra exec says. (via Consumers Union)

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