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Nestle Recalls Cookie Dough

TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
edited June 2009 in Everything Else
http://www.nestleusa.com/PubNews/PressReleaseLibraryDetails.aspx?id=133CC131-A79F-4E84-9C43-C9F99FE5BC99
Just giving everyone a heads-up. If you like to eat raw cookie dough, you might want to hold off for a bit.

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  • AprecheApreche
    edited June 2009
    http://www.nestleusa.com/PubNews/PressReleaseLibraryDetails.aspx?id=133CC131-A79F-4E84-9C43-C9F99FE5BC99
    Just giving everyone a heads-up. If you like to eat raw cookie dough, you might want to hold off for a bit.
    Who eats that shit anyway? Just make your own.

    Also, doesn't raw cookie dough necessarily have raw egg? And doesn't that necessarily mean that you should expect their to be Ecoli in there? I'm pretty sure that the pre-made cookie dough is not intended to be eaten raw. Thus, I don't think it's really a problem. If you ate that shit raw, you were asking for it.
    Post edited by Apreche on
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    You ever eat chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream? Same stuff.

    Raw eggs are associated with Salmonella, not E. coli O157:H7. Salmonella colonizes the ovaries of the chicken and is passed into the egg during development. The chickens aren't actually infected by the organism, so they act as perfect carriers. E. coli O157:H7 is more associated with fecal contamination.

    I would put my money on the water as the likely source. The FDA suspects that it's a contamination issue in a single plant, but nobody knows yet.

    As an interesting note, there are currently 66 cases in 29 states. There's a high association with females aged 19 or younger.
  • AprecheApreche
    As an interesting note, there are currently 66 cases in 29 states. There's a high association with females aged 19 or younger.
    Are these young females more succeptible to the E. coli, or maybe they're just eating more of the cookie dough?
  • SchnevetsSchnevets
    edited June 2009
    As an interesting note, there are currently 66 cases in 29 states. There's a high association with females aged 19 or younger.
    Are these young females more succeptible to the E. coli, or maybe they're just eating more of the cookie dough?
    Clearly someone never got dragged into an older sister's sleepover as a lad...
    Post edited by Schnevets on
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    As an interesting note, there are currently 66 cases in 29 states. There's a high association with females aged 19 or younger.
    Are these young females more succeptible to the E. coli, or maybe they're just eating more of the cookie dough?
    They're the demographic that consumes more raw cookie dough than anyone else.
  • AprecheApreche
    They're the demographic that consumes more raw cookie dough than anyone else.
    At least it's better than doing drugs?
  • Kate MonsterKate Monster
    Raw cookie dough was a staple at sleepovers, but we always made it ourselves. I never had salmonella issues, but a case of the squirts is worth the taste of raw cookie dough.
  • ayameirisayameiris
    Meh, I prefer homemade cookies anyways and I'll never get tired of scooping cookie dough out of the bowl after the cookie sheet is in the oven. Some childhood habits are hard to let go.
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    They're the demographic that consumes more raw cookie dough than anyone else.
    At least it's better than doing drugs?
    7 out of the 66 cases have contracted HUS. You'd probably rather be doing drugs.
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    You ever eat chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream? Same stuff.
    Cookie dough designed specifically for eating raw (such as that found in ice cream) is made either without raw egg or with pasteurized eggs and is safe to eat.
    The FDA agrees.
  • AprecheApreche
    The FDA agrees.
    This may be. However, those specific Nestle products I am pretty sure are intended to be baked.
  • trogdor9trogdor9
    The FDA agrees.
    This may be. However, those specific Nestle products I am pretty sure are intended to be baked.
    Yeah, you're not supposed to eat the cookie dough that comes in a can. Actually, does anyone know if commercially available cookie dough made with pasteurized eggs exists?
  • RymRym
    I just eat raw cookie dough and raw eggs. Also, raw fish and raw beef. ^_~
  • TheWhaleSharkTheWhaleShark
    edited June 2009
    The FDA agrees.
    This may be. However, those specific Nestle products I am pretty sure are intended to be baked.
    Yeah, you're not supposed to eat the cookie dough that comes in a can. Actually, does anyone know if commercially available cookie dough made with pasteurized eggs exists?
    In this specific case, it's highly unlikely that the eggs are the problem, given the organism.
    Post edited by TheWhaleShark on
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