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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Two federal agencies warned consumers Friday not to eat raw Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough.


Consumers are advised to throw out all prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products.

The company said it is recalling an estimated 300,000 cases of the dough as a precaution after reports of food-borne illness in 28 states.

There are concerns that the premade dough may be contaminated with the bacterium E. coli 0157:H7, which causes abdominal cramping, vomiting and diarrhea, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Young children and the elderly can suffer more serious symptoms.

Nestle issued a statement saying, "While the E. coli strain implicated in this investigation has not been detected in our product, the health and safety of our consumers is paramount, so we are initiating this voluntary recall."

According to Nestle spokeswoman Laurie MacDonald, raw dough was one of the things the sick people reported eating.

"The health and safety of our consumers is our No. 1 priority," she said. "We felt the best thing to do is a voluntary recall."

She said the company was informed by the FDA Wednesday night "and immediately took action."

"We really want to remind consumers that raw cookie dough should not be eaten," she said.

Since March, the CDC says, 66 people have become sick in 28 states after eating raw cookie dough. Twenty-five people were hospitalized. No one has died.

The FDA and the CDC say people who have become sick after eating refrigerated Toll House cookie dough should contact their doctors.


They advise consumers to throw out all prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products. Retailers and restaurateurs should not sell or serve any Toll House cookie dough products, the agencies said.


The company said the market share for Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough for the most recent 52-week period was 41 percent.

The recall does not include already-baked Toll House cookies, varieties of Toll House morsels, chocolate baking bars or cocoa or Dreyer's and Edy's ice cream products with Nestle Toll House cookie dough ingredients
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If you bake the cookies then you're fine. Don't eat raw cookie dough, you won't get sick...problem solved.

I eat raw cookie dough all the time. lol

So, I used a coupon a few weeks ago for Nestle chilled cookie dough (the fancy types that come in a tray, a dozen to a variety, I bought reg choc/chip and the other mac. nut with white choc). Haven't baked them yet.

Do I return them?

Or do I bake them and trust that they're safe?

I've had a good portion of my colon removed due to cancer 10 years ago and I avoid any risk with E-coli (I joke that if I ever have food poisoning my family might as well say good-bye to me....LOL). Even normal foods mess me up sometimes.

Thanks for any info. I can't decide if it's a risk if you bake the cookies or not.

The risk comes in the handling of the raw cookie dough. Cooking it properly kills the offending bacteria. I am no doctor, to say the least, but if you are very careful in the handling and wash hands thoroughly between "handlings" of the raw cookie dough, if you even have to with this particular type you described, I think you would be safe.

Hey, get this - I had a recorded phone call from Krogers, stating that recently I purchased 2 products that are being recalled. I should return them to my local Kroger store for a full refund.

Now isn't that so nice? LOL

They sure track their customers......I'm not that freaked out about it by now. But at first when Krogers would mail me specific coupons to the exact items I purchase on a weekly basis, I was pretty freaked out. Now it's just the way they do things there......

Sometimes I let other customers "borrow" my Kroger card but they seem hesitant for me to have their items on my record. Which I find so odd........what are they buying anyway........but I only do this when they can't find their card and I just offer mine, to be nice.

But anywho, didn't bake them and I'll return them tomorrow probably. They're sitting out on my dining room table so someone doesn't bake them accidentally (like my family would take it upon themselves to cook.....LOL).

Miss Mary wrote:So, I used a coupon a few weeks ago for Nestle chilled cookie dough (the fancy types that come in a tray, a dozen to a variety, I bought reg choc/chip and the other mac. nut with white choc). Haven't baked them yet.

Do I return them?

Or do I bake them and trust that they're safe?

I've had a good portion of my colon removed due to cancer 10 years ago and I avoid any risk with E-coli (I joke that if I ever have food poisoning my family might as well say good-bye to me....LOL). Even normal foods mess me up sometimes.

Thanks for any info. I can't decide if it's a risk if you bake the cookies or not.

Actually, you do neither. You give them to me promptly, and I will dispose of them accordingly (right into my stomach! after I cook them)

This topic made me hungry so i went out to get some to eat raw ASAP...

LOL!!!

Been nice knowing you guys........

Pepto Bismal anyone? LOL