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"It&amp;#039;s been a bad week for folks who like to eat cookie dough raw, especially dough they don&amp;#039;t have to make themselves.  Last Friday, Nestl\u00E9 USA issued a recall of 300,000 cases of its Toll House cookie dough after the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control drew a link between a nationwide outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 and the popular, ready-to-bake product.   Nestl\u00E9 actually learned of the FDA&amp;#039;s concerns on Wednesday, June 17, and suspended production at its Danville, Va., plant where the cookie dough is made the following day. The recall, effecting 48 varieties of Toll House cookie dough, was issued Friday morning. As   of Wednesday this week, 70 people in 30 states have fallen ill; 27 have been hospitalized. No one has died, but seven people have suffered hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of kidney failure, as a result. &amp;quot;Preliminary results of this investigation indicate a strong association with eating raw prepackaged cookie dough,&amp;quot; said the CDC in a release earlier this week. &amp;quot;Most patients reported eating refrigerated prepackaged Nestl\u00E9 Toll House cookie dough products raw.&amp;quot; The big mystery, of course, is why E. coli is making everyone sick. As the raw cookie dough contains raw eggs, Salmonella would have seemed the likely culprit but that isn&amp;#039;t the case. Speculation as to how a pathogen that lives in the guts of ruminant animals - cows, goats, and sheep for example - got into a product that doesn&amp;#039;t use ingredients from any of those animals is running rampant.  Although the FDA has had investigators at the Danville plant for a week now, there still haven&amp;#039;t been any leads.  The investigation still has not found any traces of E. coli at the Danville plant, said Edie Burge, a Nestl\u00E9 spokesperson. The FDA is looking at &amp;quot;every aspect of operations,&amp;quot; she said.   The recall affects only Nestl\u00E9&amp;#039;s ready-to-bake raw cookie dough products. &amp;quot;No other Nestl\u00E9 Toll House products are impacted,&amp;quot; Nestl\u00E9 said in a release, &amp;quot;including already baked Toll House cookies purchased outside the home, all varieties of Nestl\u00E9 Toll House morsels, chocolate baking bars, or cocoa, and Dreyer&amp;#039;s and Edy&amp;#039;s ice cream products with Nestl\u00E9 Toll House cookie dough ingredients.&amp;quot; Additional information about the recall can be found at www.verybestbaking.com, and at the FDA web site. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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