The city of Pfaffenhofen company art mill rice gear GmbH will call back a Batch of “flour magic rye flour Type 1150” date of minimum durability 17.07.20.
Customers who have purchased the rye flour, should this enter into the relevant sale site, with shares of the company. There you will receive the purchase price without a receipt be refunded, it says on the website of the art mill the rice aisle.
According to the company, an increased amount of so-called ergot in the flour-alkaloids measured. These substances are formed by the parasitic ergot fungus, which affects, among other things, rye.
Acute poisoning with ergot alkaloids can cause hypertension, convulsions, headache, Nausea, or hallucinations. What are the symptoms actually occur depends on the dose absorbed.
In the middle ages mother were grain-poisoning is a common Problem. Today, it provides both the cultivation as well as in Milling with various measures to ensure that the flour contains no ergot alkaloids.