Federal health officials warned consumers not to eat raw or baked prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough because of E.coli infection risks.
The Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention along with state regulators are investigating a nationwide E.coli outbreak possibly linked to the Nestle USA’s Toll House products. The company voluntarily recalled the products today.
The FDA reported that since March, the government has received 66 reports of illness in 28 states, and that 25 people were hospitalized, including seven with a severe complication. The FDA said no one had died.
Nestle USA said it hasn’t found the E.coli strain implicated in the outbreak — E.coli O157:H7 — but the company recalled the products after the FDA told it about the investigation. Nestle said the products involved include all Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products, ranging from chocolate-chip bars to tubs of gingerbread cookie dough.
Is nothing sacred?
When GWB was in office, this would have been used as an indictment of his administration and inability to protect our nation’s food supply. Claims would be made that his attention to stealing Iraqi oil prevented the FDA from doing its job, and that he panders to the Big Corporations and allows them to take cost-cutting shortcuts that kill us.
I’m just saying…
Cookie dough should be healthy to eat raw. If I wanted to bake cookies, I would bake them from scratch.
Don’t eat it you fat fatties…
to me the funny thing is that nobody really ate cookie dough before it came in tubes.
#4, Travis,
Then you were neither a kid nor have any.
#4…Your mom never let you lick the mixer bowl and/or beaters? Poor deprived child!
Anyway, I really don’t see why Nestle is being blamed. The product is perfectly safe (if fattening) when used as directed.
My wife have bought this product, and I don’t recall her ever baking it. On a bad day she would eat it out the refrigerator cold. I would think that 20 minutes in a 400 degree F. oven would kill E. coli.
Eating licking the bowl or beater is one thing, but in general she didn’t let me eat a lot of raw eggs. Did any one’s mom make a batch of cookie dough with no intention to bake? Since cookie dough started coming in tubes made with pasteurized eggs people will by them with the intention of not baking them. Of course this is just my observation.
Of course. When I make my own cookie dough, I bake it. If it comes in tubes, I eat it raw. I did lick the beaters when my mom made cookies when I was a child.
Tube cookies really need to be healthy to raw or society will melt down. I would never think of baking tube cookies.
“Nestle USA said it hasn’t found the E.coli strain implicated in the outbreak”
Oh, well, as long as they haven’t found THAT strain. So, ummm, what strains did they find?
Mmmmm…Toll house cookies
Doh! They accidently used the Out House Cookies recipe.
Cooking kills ecoli, but not the toxin it may have produced….
I Toll you these cookies tasted funny
The fat and sugar finally took their Toll
Toll the bell, bad cookies are about
Eat the cookie, pay the Toll
I can’t Toll her ate the cookies
I never eat raw dough of any kind since it made me really, really sick once. But the article says “raw or baked” — yow! What am I going to do now that I MUST have some chocolate chip cookies?