From the Editors
Don't Eat The Raw Cookie Dough!
Wow, ick: The FDA has confirmed the presence of E. coli O157:H7 in a batch of Nestlé Toll House refrigerated cookie dough--but the company has even more to answer for. This dough is from the same Nestlé plant "that refused to give FDA inspectors access to certain records in the past," reports WSJ Health Blog. Nestlé had issued a "voluntary recall" on the dough on June 19, but Obama Foodorama is still able to find it in local stores." "if we didn't know it before, we know it now: 'voluntary' is a euphemism for not having to do anything," says Food Politics. "Doesn't this suggest the need for some real regulations?" "Any time I think I might be overly paranoid by so assiduously avoiding processed, pre-packaged, factory farmed 'foods,'" writes Dejamo's Distracted, "I just wait for the next recall notification." Consumerist speculates on how "bacteria normally associated with raw ground beef find its way into our buckets of delicious cookie dough." And, really, that's the issue--raw cookie dough is so delicious! Healthy Recipe Doctor has a recipe for cookie dough you can eat raw because it's made with egg substitute--but salmonella wasn't the problem in this instance, and anyway, cookie dough's not supposed to be healthy. It's just not supposed to make you sick.
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