Daily Harvest identifies likely culprit behind hundreds of illnesses
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Daily Harvest says investigators believe one ingredient is to blame for gastrointestinal issues that sickened hundreds of people and prompted the recall of the food company's French Lentil + Leek Crumbles in June.
"At this time, we have identified tara flour as the cause of the issue," Rachel Drori, founder and CEO of the vegan meal-kit delivery service, said in a blog post.
Made from the seeds of tara trees grown in Peru, tara flour surfaced as the likely cause after weeks of investigation by microbiologists, toxicologists and three labs, Drori said. Work continues with the unidentified flour producer and the Food and Drug Administration to figure out what specifically made customers ill, she added.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.