Recall: Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough

In cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control, Nestle has recalled all prepackaged, “Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough.”  The concern is that E. Coli may be to blame for recent illness in customers who ate the cookie dough.

The FDA and CDC recommend not eating the recalled cookie dough or handling it other than to toss it in the garbage. If you have it in your refrigerator, discard it.  Although no one has died from eating the cookie dough, it appears that 66 people have gotten sick from eating it since March 2009.  Twenty five of those people were hospitalized.

E. Coli can cause cramping, diarrhea, vomiting and other more serious conditions.  Healthy people usually recover from E. Coli within a week, but those young (children) and the elderly are more at risk for serious health problems which can include Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome and kidney damage.

If you or your child have eaten the recalled cookie dough and have any of these symptoms, contact your health care provider without delay.