Comments on: Cookie dough alert: E. coli O157:H7

By: Warning: Cookie Dough E. coli Illnesses | Health and Beauty

Warning: Cookie Dough E. coli Illnesses | Health and Beauty — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:52:10 +0000

[...] Food Politics “If cookie dough is the culprit, how on earth did this nasty form of E. coli, usually excreted by farm animals, get into it? The endless mantra is that we need prevention: HACCP, pathogen testing, and independent third-party verification.“Center for Science in the Public Interest “We urge the House to pass the Food Safety Enhancement Act now.” [...]

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Sun, 21 Jun 2009 11:20:34 +0000

By: Don McIntosh

Don McIntosh — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:55:55 +0000

On hearing the latest food scandal, my first reaction was Janet’s: Why do people buy several-day-old cookie dough that’s full of preservatives, when it takes five minutes to mix together butter, sugar, flour, salt, vanilla, baking powder, chocolate chips?
But I like the scientific curiosity Marion Nestle brings to the question. Not to justify industrial food, but it seems like they have so much to lose by these outbreaks? Is there something about industrial food processing that makes the food vulnerable to these outbreaks, as opposed to them occurring because of corporate negligence and penny-pinching? That might be worth following up on.

By: Janet Camp

Janet Camp — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:56:55 +0000

These things don’t affect me–I make my own cookies for heaven’s sake! It takes about five minutes to mix them up, so why do people buy these products? If you do, I guess the best policy is to not eat any of it raw (which is half the fun of making cookies!)

The peanut butter scare was also junk food by-products, not peanut butter from the jar.

I’m all for prevention, but what’s it going to cost? These products are already overpriced. Of course, it makes sense in the case of produce and we have to do it for everything in the interest of preventing illness, so I guess people who use these products will have to pay for their “convenience”.

By: Warning: Cookie Dough E. coli Illnesses | Your Healthy Healing Skin

Warning: Cookie Dough E. coli Illnesses | Your Healthy Healing Skin — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:25:47 +0000

By: Terry Wolfisch Cole

Terry Wolfisch Cole — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 02:24:48 +0000

Does cooking kill the e. coli? Is this being transmitted by people eating raw cookie dough?

By: Morta Di Fame

Morta Di Fame — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:10:25 +0000

Thanks! Michael Pollan was correct. Don’t eat what’s advertised … or you might get E.Coli! GEEEE-ROSSS!!!

By: Samantha

Samantha — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:25:53 +0000

After reading the New York Times blurb about the outbreak, I was just wondering the same. Ms. Nestle, is there a country that has better regulation/food policy than the US? Maybe if we had someone/something to aspire to we’d reach a higher standard quicker.