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    E. coli reported in 28 states - UPDATED to 30 states

    Nestle USA recalls Toll House cookie dough

    Nestle USA says it is recalling its Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products (See full list below) after reports of illnesses by those who ate the dough raw, the Associated Press reports.

    The company says the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control are investigating reported E. coli illnesses that might be related, the AP says.

    The FDA said there have been 66 reports of illness across 28 states since March, but no deaths. It says consumers should throw away any prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products in their homes.

    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, the AP reports.

    Nestle spokeswoman Roz O'Hearn said "this has been a very quickly moving situation," adding the company took action less than 24 hours after hearing of the problem, the AP says.

    Update at 11:43 a.m. ET: Here, according to the AP, is a list of products recalled by the company:

    COOKIE & BROWNIE DOUGH BAR
    Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz.
    Chocolate Chunk bar 16.5oz.
    Walnut Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz.
    Jumbo Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz.
    Oatmeal Raisin bar 16.5oz.
    Sugar Cookies bar 16.5oz.
    Mini Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz.
    Mini Brownie Bites bar 16oz.
    Fudgy Brownie With Peanut Butter Filling 19oz.

    COOKIE DOUGH TUB
    Chocolate Chip tub 40oz.
    Chocolate Chip tub 80oz. (5 lb)
    Sugar tub 40oz.
    Gingerbread tub 40oz.
    Peanut Butter tub 40oz.

    TUBE DOUGH
    Chocolate Chip tube 16.5oz.
    Chocolate Chip tube 32oz.

    ULTIMATES COOKIE BAR DOUGH
    Ultimates Peanut Butter Cups, Chips & Choc. Chunks bar 16oz.
    Ultimates White Chip Macadamia Nut bar 16oz.
    Ultimates Choc. Chip & Chunks with Pecans bar 16oz.
    Ultimates Chocolate Chip Lovers 16oz.
    Ultimates Turtles bar 16oz.
    Ultimates Peanut Butter Lovers bar 16oz.
    Ultimates Choc. Chip with Caramel Filling bar 16oz.
    Ultimates Choc. Chip with Choc. Filling bar 16oz.

    SEASONAL COOKIE & BROWNIE DOUGH
    Valentine Hearts Sugar Cookie Shapes 15.5oz.
    Valentine Swirled Chocolate Chip bar 16oz.
    Fudgy Brownies With Raspberry Filling 19oz.
    Easter Eggs Sugar Cookie Shapes 15.5oz.
    Easter Swirled Chocolate Chip bar 16oz.
    Easter Swirled Mini Brownie Bites bar 18oz.
    Red, White & Blue Swirled Choc Chip bar 16oz.
    Halloween Pumpkin Pals Sugar Cookies 13.5oz.
    Halloween Swirled Chocolate Chip bar 16oz.
    Halloween Swirled Fudgy Brownies bar 18oz.
    Christmas Shapes Sugar Cookies 15.5oz.
    Christmas Swirled Chocolate Chip bar 16oz.
    Christmas Swirled Fudgy Brownies bar 18oz.
    Limited Edition Mint Swirled Chocolate Chip 16oz.

    DISCONTINUED VARIETIES
    Valentine Hearts Sugar Cookies 13.5oz
    Easter Brownie Bar 18oz
    Easter Bunnies Sugar Cookies 13.5oz
    Halloween Sugar Shapes 15.5oz
    Christmas Sugar Cookie Tube 16oz
    Oatmeal Cranberry Cookie Tub 48 oz.

    Posted June 19, 2009

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    While Nestlé’s chocolate Factory in Mexico City (located in Paseo Tollocan near Toluca) was in need of an inner pathway for visitors to witness the production of their favorite chocolates...

    Nestle Chocolate Museum in Mexico City



    Do you really want to go see how E-Coli is made?



    Factory in Queretaro, Mexico... They sure are spending a lot of money on modern architecture.
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    Cookie dough recalled Nestlé USA recalled its Toll House re

    The Chocolate comes from south of the border.

    Cookie dough recalled
    Nestlé USA recalled its Toll House refrigerated-cookie-dough products Friday after federal health officials linked the dough to infections...

    By The New York Times and The Associated Press

    EXPERTS generally advise against eating any dough or batter raw, but that is usually because they contain eggs, which sometimes carry the bacteria salmonella. A different germ — E. coli — triggered the Friday's recall. E. coli can be spread through uncooked or undercooked meat and eggs, unpasteurized milk and juice and water contaminated with human or animal waste. Some food-safety tips from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA):

    Never eat eggs raw: If you want to eat cookie dough without cooking it, and you are making it at home, consider using pasteurized eggs.

    Wash well: Always thoroughly wash your hands, food and cooking surfaces and utensils before and after preparing any food that could be contaminated and after touching any animals that could carry salmonella.

    Cook sufficiently: Many bacteria can be destroyed when food is cooked to recommended temperatures. However, Nestlé and the FDA are recommending that no one bake or eat the products being recalled.

    Chill promptly: Stow perishables immediately and check that the refrigerator is at 40 degrees Fahrenheit or below and the freezer is at zero degrees Fahrenheit or below.

    Obey recalls: For a constantly updated list of food and drug recalls, www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/default.htm

    The Associated Press
    Recall details

    The Nestlé USA Toll House recall does not include Toll House chocolate chips or baking bars, or Dreyer's and Edy's ice-cream products with Nestlé Toll House cookie-dough ingredients.

    Nestlé said about 300,000 cases of Toll House cookie dough were affected, including chocolate-chip dough, gingerbread, sugar, peanut-butter dough, brownie dough and other varieties. The recall includes refrigerated cookie-bar dough, cookie-dough tubs, cookie-dough tubes, limited-edition cookie-dough items, seasonal cookie dough and Ultimates cookie-bar dough.

    The Associated Press


    NEW YORK — Nestlé USA recalled its Toll House refrigerated-cookie-dough products Friday after federal health officials linked the dough to infections from the bacteria E. coli in 66 people in 29 states, including five in Washington.

    Officials at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a preliminary investigation shows "a strong association" between eating raw refrigerated cookie dough made by Nestlé and the illnesses in the states whose lab results have found E. coli bacteria since March.

    About 25 of those people were hospitalized, but no one died. Most patients were young and female.

    E. coli O157, the strain linked to the Nestlé dough, is a particularly dangerous pathogen normally linked with contaminated meat. It causes abdominal cramping, vomiting and bloody diarrhea. Most adults recover within a week, but the disease can lead to serious kidney damage and death.

    Two of the five Washington cases were King County residents, and single cases were reported in Grays Harbor, Pierce and Thurston counties, according to the state Department of Health. All cases occurred in May. Two people were hospitalized.

    Nestlé voluntarily recalled all Toll House refrigerated cookie-dough products after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised consumers to throw away any Nestlé Toll House cookie-dough products in their homes and asked retailers, restaurateurs and other food-service operations not to sell or serve any of the recalled products.

    Customers can return any recalled product where they bought it for a full refund. The recall does not affect other Toll House products, including chocolate chips and ice cream that contains raw Toll House dough.

    FDA spokesman Michael Herndon said officials were confident Nestlé refrigerated-dough products caused the outbreak.

    Spokeswoman Laurie MacDonald for Nestlé USA in Glendale, Calif., a unit of Switzerland-based Nestlé, said the company has temporarily stopped making the refrigerated-dough products while the FDA investigates the Ohio factory where they were made.

    Dr. Timothy Jones, Tennessee's state epidemiologist, said the cookie-dough recall demonstrated how difficult it has become to ensure the safety of the nation's food supply.

    "We're all having trouble figuring out how E. coli O157 gets in cookie dough," Jones said. "This wasn't on anybody's radar screen."

    Among the early food suspects were strawberries and fruit smoothies, but neither quite fit. On Wednesday, health investigators in Washington state proposed a link with Nestlé's cookie dough, prompting officials in the rest of the country to re-interview victims. All six in Minnesota confirmed eating dough, said Carlota Medus, an epidemiologist in the state health department.

    The FDA is continuing to investigate the source of the contamination.

    "Was it a contaminated ingredient, and if so what?" said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods. "Or was it a problem that occurred inside the facility during processing?"

    The FDA said consumers should not 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 surfaces.

    Raw cookie dough is so popular that it has spawned more than 40 groups on Facebook.

    But no raw cookie dough is necessarily safe. The eggs in Nestlé's Toll House's dough are pasteurized, which eliminates most of the risk of salmonella infection from raw eggs. But other ingredients could contain pathogens or bacteria, and the company warns in product labels not to eat the dough raw.

    Several recent food recalls have been related to bacterial contamination, including a salmonella outbreak last winter traced to a peanut company that sickened more than 600 people and that was blamed for at least nine deaths. A separate outbreak of salmonella last year linked to jalapeño peppers from Mexico led 1,400 people to become ill.

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    Spokeswoman Laurie MacDonald for Nestlé USA in Glendale, Calif.,

    a unit of Switzerland-based Nestlé,

    said the company has temporarily stopped making the refrigerated-dough products while


    the FDA investigates the Ohio factory where they were made.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dixie
    While Nestlé’s chocolate Factory in Mexico City (located in Paseo Tollocan near Toluca) was in need of an inner pathway for visitors to witness the production of their favorite chocolates...

    Nestle Chocolate Museum in Mexico City

    Do you really want to go see how E-Coli is made?
    the FDA investigates the Ohio factory where they were made.
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    Food-safety experts probing Nestle plant

    2:00 a.m. June 21, 2009

    Federal microbiologists and food-safety investigators have descended on the plant in Danville, Va., that makes Nestle's refrigerated cookie dough, trying to figure out how E. coli O157:H7 could have contaminated the product.

    A nationwide E. coli outbreak has sickened at least 65 people in 29 states.

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    70 people in 30 states infected with a strain of E. coli

    Likely fallout from cookie-dough illnesses: more than 200 layoffs

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    Nestle may lay off factory workers after illness linked to cookie dough

    70 people in 30 states infected with a strain of E. coli. believed to originate in dough

    The company recalled about 300,000 cases of the product last week

    The factory also makes Buitoni products, but in separate facility

    updated 2 hours, 53 minutes agoNext Article in Health »

    (CNN) -- A Nestle plant linked to an outbreak of illness has been shut temporarily, and the company said Monday that it expects to lay off more than 200 workers as a result.

    Preliminary results "indicate a strong association with eating raw prepackaged cookie dough," the CDC says.

    "It's likely that we're going to have some temporary layoffs at that facility," Nestle spokeswoman Roz O'Hearn said of the Danville, Virginia, facility that was churning out refrigerated cookie-dough products until Thursday.

    About 550 people work at the factory, but only about half of them work on cookie dough, she said. The rest work on Buitoni pasta and sauce in a separate facility at the plant.

    She said there is little chance that the Buitoni products might be tainted, because -- even if the cookie dough is proved to be the source of the outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 -- it is a kosher product, meaning it is made from a segregated stream of ingredients.

    Danville's Economic Development Office said the city's unemployment rate is 14.3 percent.

    Nestle was first alerted to the problem late Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration, O'Hearn said, adding: "Less than a day later, we made the decision to remove the product. We shut down. We stopped shipping."

    Included in the recall are 300,000 cases of the product. Each case contains 12 packages, and each package contains 24 cookies. That's a total of 86.4 million cookies' worth of dough.

    The recall does not include Dreyer's or Edy's ice cream products with Nestle Toll House "cookie dough" ingredients. That's because the "dough" in ice cream is not really dough at all; it is cooked.

    "Ice cream is a different formulation," O'Hearn said. "Since it's not meant to be baked before consumption -- those cookie crumbles that are in the formulation -- they're all cooked. For the cookie dough that's present in the ice cream, Dreyer's is using heat-treated ingredients."

    According to the CDC, between March 1 and Monday, 70 people in 30 states had been infected with a strain of E. coli. The ages of the people affected ranged from 2 to 57 years, though more than 70 percent were younger than 19, and 75 percent were female, the agency said on its Web site.

    Twenty-five people had been hospitalized, and seven had developed a kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome. No fatalities had been reported, it said.

    "Preliminary results of this investigation indicate a strong association with eating raw prepackaged cookie dough," the agency said. "Most patients reported eating refrigerated prepackaged Nestle Toll House cookie dough products raw."

    Though cooking the product would kill the bacteria, the agency did not recommend that people holding on to the company's cookie-dough products do so, "because consumers might get the bacteria on their hands and on other cooking surfaces."

    The recall does not include Nestle Toll House morsels, which are used as an ingredient in many homemade baked goods, or other baked cookie products

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