Trippin' Through Time

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/flour-raw-food-and-other-safety-facts

https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/foods/no-raw-dough.html

Yes, people have gotten sick from Salmonella and E. coli from eating raw flour.

In a flour recall that happened in March 2023, 14 people got sick with 3 hospitalizations.

Here were some others:

• 2021, cake mix recall that led to 16 sick and 7 hospitalized
• 2019, flour recall that led to 21 sick and 3 hospitalizations
• 2016, flour recall that led to 63 sick and 17 hospitalizations

Flour is one of the top ten foods that cause illnesses (source).

You can make your own edible cooking dough. You just have to pasteurize the eggs and flour. If I'm not mistaken, I think the flour is more dangerous than the eggs.

There are even shops which sell edible cookie dough pre-made if you'd prefer the convenience.

At least a few do.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/eating-raw-cookie-dough-actually-can-be-deadly/