Just when America thought it was safe to go back into the grocery store, another food outbreak wakes us up to the fact that there is something seriously wrong with our food safety system. This time it’s Nestle Toll House cookie dough with E. coli, a treat that nearly every
List of Nestles Toll House Cookie and Brownie Dough Products Voluntarily Recalled Because of E. coli O157:H7 Risk
| Nestlé Toll House Cookie & Brownie Dough Product Description | Consumer Unit Code (UPC) |
|---|---|
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COOKIE & BROWNIE DOUGH BAR |
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Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz |
0 50000 62231 3 |
| Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz | 0 50000 11308 8 |
| Chocolate Chunk bar 16.5oz | 0 50000 62235 1 |
| Walnut Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz | 0 50000 62233 7 |
| Jumbo Chocolate Chip | |
Summons Issued in Second Nestles Toll House Cookie Dough E. coli O57:H7 Outbreak
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Food Poisoning Seems to Never Rest
Still in Atlanta at the National Environmental Health Association Conference on my way home (or not) in a few hours. In between doing a mock deposition of a Health Inspector, I had time to talk to California, Minnesota and Oregon press about the state of Food Poisonings – specifically E. coli:
Colorado Child Sickened by E. coli Cookie Dough Files Lawsuit
An E. coli lawsuit was filed today on behalf of a Denver-area child who became gravely ill with E. coli O157:H7 after eating refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of Madison Sedbrook by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark
CDC – 70 now Ill with E. coli O157:H7 Linked to Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough – 30 Hospitalized, 7 with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
According to the CDC, 70 persons infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular DNA fingerprint (Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis – PFGE) have been reported from 30 states. Ill persons range in age from 2 to 65 years; however, 66% are less than 19 years old; 75% are female. Thirty
International Meat Co., Inc., Recalls Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination
Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-033-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH
International Meat Co., Inc., a Chicago, Ill., establishment is recalling approximately 6,152 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to recall include:
* "5-pound
Lawsuit in E. coli Cookie Dough Outbreak Filed by Marler Clark
A young woman who was hospitalized for seven days after eating raw cookie dough made by Nestle USA filed suit today against the company in California Superior Court, San Mateo County. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 18-year-old Jillian Collins by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark
First Lawsuit to be Filed in Nestle’s Toll House Cookie Dough E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak
Between speaking at the American College of Trial Lawyers in Minnesota on Friday, visiting on Saturday with a young dancer who now is confined to a wheelchair because of an E. coil O157:H7-tainted hamburger, and seeing an Ohio family today who lost their seven-year-old daughter to E. coli O157:H7, I am a bit tired and saddened
So, How the Hell Does Cow Shit (E. coli O157:H7) Get Into Nestles’ Toll House Cookie Dough?
I have been asked that questions several dozen times in the last 48 hours as this outbreak has mushroomed to nearly 70 in some 28 states with at least 25 hospitalized and 7 with HUS. So, how did this nasty bug get into such an "All-American" product? Here is the list of ingredients:
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