Mexico’s Health Department has issued a nationwide alert to avoid eating Nestle Toll House cookie dough products following an outbreak of e-coli bacteria-related illnesses in the United States.
{reg}Seventy-two people have fallen ill in the United States after eating Nestle Toll House products. Thirty-four are hospitalized and ten have suffered a condition known as Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, which can cause kidney failure.
“These products should not be consumed even if they have been cooked,” advised Mexico’s Health Department. “Cross contamination might have already taken place.”
The black-listed products are: Cookie & Brownie Dough Bar, Cookie Dough Tub, Tube Dough, Temporales Cookie & Brownie Dough and Ultimates Cookie Bar Dough.
According to the National Association of Department Stores, Walmart and Costco, none of the products have thus far been imported into Mexico.
Border states have asked people who frequently travel to the United States not to buy the products.
Eating raw cookie dough is popular in the United States and although the cookies would be safe to eat after cooking them, bacteria could already have spread to hands and nearby surfaces, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Nestle USA has voluntarily recalled all of its Toll House cookie dough products and consumers are entitled to a refund from the outlets they purchased them from. The FDA has advised people to throw away Nestle Toll House cookie dough-related products and have asked retailers not to sell them.{/reg)
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