E.coli found in Nestlé cookie dough

06-29-2009

E. coli found in Nestlé refrigerated Toll House cookie dough from Virginia plant, federal investigators say. Interviews with patients - most of whom are teenage and preteen girls - showed high percentage of them ate raw Nestlé's cookie dough before becoming sick, CDC says. Refrigerated dough has rarely been associated with any food-borne illness outbreaks; at least 69 illnesses have been linked to pathogen.

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Tags: Danville, E. coli 0157:H7, e.coli, food safety, food-borne illness, Laurie MacDonald, Nestlé, pathogen, Stephanie Kwisnek, Toll House




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