I want E. Coli with my cookies!!
Written by cnoonz on June 30th, 2009 · 205 viewsDo you like to eat raw cookie dough? Just one spoonful won’t hurt right?
Think again…Escherichia coli will confine to your intestines and cause a variety of intestinal and UTI problems.
In a major breakthrough in the nationwide outbreak of E. coli, investigators have found a sample of Toll House cookie dough contaminated with the pathogen at Nestlé’s Danville, Va., plant.
The Food and Drug Administration today told Nestlé officials they had located a 16.5 ounce production sample of Toll House chocolate chip cookie dough at the same plant where the popular confection is made. The ‘best-by’ date is June 10, 2009.
This is a huge step in the investigation, but neither investigators nor Nestlé officials know as of yet how E. coli 0157:H7 got into the dough, or which ingredient in particular is contaminated.
“It’s very disappointing,” said Edie Burge, a spokeswoman for the company, but additional testing is still needed to confirm the genetic connection with the 69 confirmed cases of E. coli poisoning in a nationwide outbreak.
Nestlé is continuing to work closely with the FDA on the matter.
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Pilsbury actually spiked certain toll house cookie products with e coli. Turns out only a few packages contained e coli.
There has been an ongoing pilsbury vs toll house lawsuit going on for years over several baked goods.
These used to come with an Absinthe/Hashball/Anthrax powdered sugar like coating on them. Yum.
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June 30, 2009 @ 12:28 pm
69!!!! i luv cookiues