Salud Issues
Warning Of Nestle Toll House Cookies
The ministerio de Salud has issued an alert
for Neslte's Tool House products aftet the
US Food and Drug Administration said earlier
this week that it had confirmed the presence
of E. coli 0157, a deadly strain of
bacteria, in samples of Nestlé Toll House
refrigerated cookie dough produced at the
company's plant in Danville, Virginia.
Nestlé voluntarily recalled 30,000 cases of
its refrigerated cookie dough on June 19
after FDA officials and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention suspected
that dozens of cases of E. coli-related
illness were linked to the cookie dough.
As of last week, CDC reported 69 cases of E.
coli 0157 illness linked to cookie dough in
29 states. The agency said that 34 of the
victims have been hospitalized and that nine
developed a serious complication known as
hemolytic-uremic syndrome. None has died.
Nestle's Toll House products are not sold,
or authorized for sale in Costa Rica.
However, Salud officials are warning that
the product could be brought in from the US
and other countries where it is sold and are
asking anyone in possession of the product
to discard it or hand it over to the Área
Rectora de Salud.
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