Nestle Cookie Dough Recalled

The Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat raw Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough. There are concerns that the premade dough may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria.

Health officials and food producers are puzzled because cookie dough seems like an unlikely product to contain the bacterium, which lives in the intestines of cattle.

Nestle’s cookie dough is packaged with labels warning people not to eat it raw. But it has become such a popular snack that many ice cream makers have developed a cookie dough flavor.

Since March, 66 people have become sick in 28 states after eating raw cookie dough. 25 people have been hospitalized.

The recall does not include already baked Toll House cookies and other products with Nestle cookie dough ingrdients.