Nestle Danville Plant (Google Satellite)
Nestle is back in business making and selling refrigerated cookie dough following an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that, according to a July 10 CDC report, has sickened at least 76 people from 31 states. 35 people had been hospitalized, including 11 with a serious complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).
The decision to start selling the product again was made despite the fact that E. coli O157:H7 was found in an unopened package of Nestle Toll House cookie dough. This strain was not the same as the outbreak strain cultured from stool samples from outbreak survivors – meaning, most likely, that Nestle cookie dough had at least two separate strains of the deadly pathogen.
According to the FDA, Nestle cleaned up the plant, switched suppliers for the main ingredients and is now back in business producing refrigerated cookie dough:
After a plant shutdown, investigation and clean-up, Nestle has resumed manufacturing of Toll House prepackaged, refrigerated cookie dough products, now made with main ingredients from new suppliers.
Nestle gets a “do-over” while the outbreak victims are stuck with a long recovery, medical bills, lost wages and a terrible memory of an illness they will never forget. It doesn’t seem fair.
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