Nestle's voluntarily recalls refrigerated Toll House cookie dough
Ugh! I just bought a bunch of this BOGO at the grocery a week ago. Apparently, folks have not listened to their Mommas and are eating the cookie dough raw. According to this story, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating the possibility of E. coli in the raw dough. Nestle has recalled it and the FDA is recommending that consumers throw away any prepackaged refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough in their homes. Throw it away? Can someone tell me how to get a refund?
Here's what Nestle's says to do with the dough to get your dough: "Consumers who have purchased these products should not consume them. Instead, we are asking that consumers return these products to their local grocer for a full refund."
There have been 66 reports of illness across 28 states since March. About 25 people have been hospitalized, but no one has died, the MSNBC story said.
The recall includes refrigerated cookie bar dough, cookie dough tub, cookie dough tubes, limited edition cookie dough items, seasonal cookie dough and Ultimates cookie bar dough. It does not affect any other Toll House products.
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Correction I made the cookies last Thursday night, the first day of the sale I think. Friday he painted my new classroom at school, yeah taxpayers that would be one of the things teachers pay to do themselves unless we want to look at I heart so and so for years, and Sat we were a theme park all day. Sat Night he was in the hospital. It is that fast. This was all last week. Noah's mom you would probably know by now. For the record I made the cookies and ate several chips and didn't get sick but I waited for them to cool before I ate them as well.
Posted by: teacher | June 21, 2009 at 08:08 AM
My very very healthy, never been in the hospital and has to practically be gushing fluids to complain 33 Yr old husband just was released from a 5 DAY STAY in the hospital. Guess what we ate the night before. Oh yeah the bogo cookies. They were not raw but you know how when they come out of the oven and they are not quite done but you can't resist....
The Gastro Doc is looking into the Ecoli possibility and they did treat him with antibiotics for that as he was infected with some kind of nasty funk in his intestines. So it is not "fatties" or anything else...but when it hits it really really sucks.
Posted by: teacher | June 21, 2009 at 08:02 AM
Noah's Mom, calm down, your kid will be fine. He is not in any "danger zone". Looking at the numbers, the number of folks who actually got sick is TINY, and we don't know if they ate dough that was old, sat out too long, etc. These news stories only create panic among people, and you are biting. Calm down.
Posted by: Sarah's Dad | June 20, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Just Thursday night my 2 year-old son and myself baked the last of a pack of Nestle chocolate chip cookies. I let him help me break the cookies apart and noticed he licked little bits of dough off his fingers. He then took a chocolate chip off the tray while we were waiting for the oven to heat up and ate that as well. The next day, the Nestle recall report came out! Now I am scared!!! There is a 3-9 day incubation period... Our little guy is in the danger zone for E. Coli bacteria contamination. Is there anything I can do?
Posted by: Noah's Mom | June 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM
According to the FDA: "Consumers should not try to cook the dough, even though it would be safe to eat if cooked, because the bacteria could move to their hands and to countertops and other cooking surfaces."
Posted by: Stir Crazy | June 19, 2009 at 06:40 PM
Yes, Jon, but a lot of people are not aware of that, and as a responsible purveyor of the news the writer of this story should have stated that...you think?
Posted by: Joey | June 19, 2009 at 06:08 PM
I ate Nestle raw cookie dough just last week and I didn't get sick.
What are these people doing, eating the whole package raw?
Posted by: Cheryl | June 19, 2009 at 04:18 PM
I think the key issue here is these people are eating RAW cookie dough. No complaints about eating COOKED cookies, though....hmm...
Posted by: Jen | June 19, 2009 at 01:54 PM
Hahaha! Too many fatties can't wait to eat after being cooked.
Posted by: RavenCDR | June 19, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Are people eating this stuff raw? Cookies are brought to a temp far past what E. coli can survive.
Posted by: Jon | June 19, 2009 at 01:09 PM