E. Coli In Nestle Cookie Dough, FDA Confirms

NEW YORK — The Food and Drug Administration said Monday a sample of raw cookie dough collected at a Nestle USA manufacturing plant last week has tested positive for E. coli.

Nestle voluntarily recalled all Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products made at the Danville, Va., factory earlier this month after the FDA told Nestle it suspected consumers may have been exposed to E. coli bacteria after eating the dough raw.

The FDA and the federal Centers for Disease Control have been investigating whether the cookie dough was the source of the E. coli outbreak which has sickened 69 people in 29 states, according to the latest CDC data. E. coli is a potentially deadly germ that can cause bloody diarrhea, dehydration and, in the most severe cases, kidney failure.

The FDA says the sample of Toll House refrigerated prepackaged dough was manufactured at the plant on Feb. 10.

In a statement, Nestle said the sample that tested positive came from a 16-ounce Toll House refrigerated chocolate chip cookie dough bar. The product had a "best before June 10 2009" label.

"We are very concerned about those who have become ill ... and deeply regret that this has occurred," the company said in the statement.

The company also reiterated that consumers can return the recalled products to their local grocer for a full refund.

FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek says the FDA is working with the Glendale, Calif.-based unit of Switzerland-based Nestle SA to find the source of the contamination. Nestle said it will continue to work "closely and in full cooperation" with the investigation.

Besides the Toll House products, Nestle also makes a variety of refrigerated pastas and pasta sauces at the plant.

The company shut down production in the cookie dough section of the plant when it issued the recall. That section remains closed, but the company is still manufacturing the pasta and pasta sauces in a separate section of the plant.

Comments

[rogerthat21]

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[plebeianswillrevolt]

Nestle's makes the very best. ... ..

Poison.

[SusanRen]

Have people become so lazy they can't make their own cookie dough?

[qazwerty]

Yes.

[NoSillyName]

Sadly, yes. But not everyone!!

[Ironhelix]

Simple to solve. Employees need to wash their hands.

[dcrinaz]

Employees need to keep fecal matter away from food.

[dcrinaz]

Well, people for years having been saying that candies, cookies, and sweets are not good for us, that they are crap. Maybe Nestlé's took this too seriously!

[nomorefed]

People now are getting paid the SAME WAGES as they did in 2000. But are prices at 2000
levels? H3LL NO. So they go into debt, adding more layers tothe USA debt ponzi scheme.

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[Sunshine1970]

What does this have to do with E. Coli in cookie dough!?

[dcrinaz]

Nestlés makes the very best---E. Coli!

[Donatella]

Need to use Spell Check. It's "presence" not "prescence".

[loki]

There is a bakery around the corner from us called ' Monella's Bakery' and the head baker there , Sal, says that there is no need to worry about this.

[LeeCalif]

How is it that Nestle was able to refuse entry to inspectors ??????????­??????????­????????

[loki]

They hired the Bush administration to fake things like they did in Iraq to keep the UN inspectors out.

[Blurp]

N E S T L E S... Nestles makes the very best!

[NoSillyName]

As I asked before: Just where do those "chocolate chips" come from?

[sueinmn]

some 3rd world.

[NoSillyName]

LOL, that wasn't what I was getting at.

Think "chocolate chips" and then think of the brownish matter that contains E.coli. Then you may never want to eat "chocolate chips" ever again. "Chocopoo Chips".

[QuicksilverKW]

The sad thing here is that this article was posted yesterday and not one person has posted a comment. No outrage. Nobody cares. Oh well . . . so sad.

[NoSillyName]

I buy very few pre-made food items. Who knows how many stages of processing, how many hands, or what actual ingredients these items have been through or contain? Or, more importantly, how much nutritional value is left in them. As for eating any of these substances RAW? Insanity.

[loki]

Sad yes, but you have to remember, this story has been on the tv and radio news for over a week now. So its pretty much old news.

The sad part is that the FDA and Nestle will recall products under the Nestle brand name, but ignore things like ice cream or other manufactures and brand names containing this same cookie dough from Nestle.

[QuicksilverKW]

How many people remember all the babies that died because of the formula that was sent to third world countries that was also made by Nestles? Our family has boycotted their products for years. Corporations have put profits over people for a long time. How many people will boycot Nestles after this or will they justify supporting them saying it was just a mistake and won't happen again - because they like their candybars, cookies, etc. Do you even know how many other companies Nestles owns. Start reading your labels. If more people rose up and stopped supporting the bad corporations we could make a difference and stop allowing them to use us as guinea pigs for profit.

[NoSillyName]

And consider all of the tainted products from CHINA.

[dcrinaz]

Yeah, Nestlés better try harder if they want to catch up with the Chinese! Makes you wonder what the "crunch" was in the Nestlé's Crunch!

Hershey's was always a far superior chocolate anyway.