E. Coli Shelves Nestle Cookies Dough
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Don’t eat raw cookie dough! Nestle’s has voluntarily recalled its ready-to-bake cookie dough, including the popular Toll House cookies in both frozen and refrigerated forms because of suspected E.coli contamination. The recall covers refrigerated cookie bar dough, cookie dough tub, cookie dough tubes, limited edition cookie dough items, seasonal cookie dough and Ultimates cookie bar dough. Nestle’ press release states:
While the E. coli strain implicated in this investigation has not been detected in our product, the health and safety of our consumers is paramount so we are initiating this voluntary recall.
A number of illnesses were reported by those who ate the dough raw, despite warnings on the packages.
Raw cookie dough should not be eaten.
As yummy as it is, cookie dough, even homemade should always be cooked, as directed, before eaten. If you’re making"cookie dough" to add to homemade ice cream, substitute a tablespoon of oil for each egg, then freeze.
I’m curious how e-coli could end up in cookie dough as I always believed that e-coli was present in shit and that it made its way into food when the shit was present due to unsanitary commercial/industrial meat processing or when raw sewage was present in farm lands.
And, I sure did love me some raw cookie dough.