Amy Farley
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Fast Company senior editor, writer, traveler, mother. (Not necessarily in that order.)
03-04-2009 03:57:47
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Last summer, food start-up Daily Harvest sent 133 customers to the hospital—39 of them had their gallbladders removed—after it released a plant-based meat substitute with an entirely novel ingredient. That ingredient, tara flour, proved to be toxic.
fastcompany.com/90908456/daily…
My Fast Company colleague Dr. Elizabeth Segran and I spoke to customers, lawyers, food safety experts, and the executives at Daily Harvest to find out how the company incorporated this ingredient into a product without any awareness of its potential for harm. fastcompany.com/90908456/daily…