Nestle Cookie Dough Returns To Shelves

Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough is back on the shelves this week in the US following a voluntary two-month recall prompted by an E.coli outbreak.

Nestle – the world’s biggest food company – has included a warning on new packs warning shoppers not to eat the dough raw and the new shipments of dough have a blue ‘New Batch’ label. In addition, Nestle Toll House shipping cases are marked in blue (rather than the previous black) to denote new production.

“We’re proud to place Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough back on store shelves,” said Paul Bakus, general manager, Nestle USA Baking Group. “While the F.D.A. inspection at our Danville, Virginia, facility has concluded, Nestlé’s commitment to food safety continues, as does our intensive testing. We test ingredients as they arrive and our cookie dough as it’s made. We hope families around the country will continue to enjoy our cookies.”

Nestle voluntarily recalled Toll House on June 19 amid reports of illness among people who didn’t cook the dough before eating it. At least 72 people became ill, with most of them saying they had eaten raw Toll House dough, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on June 30.

The FDA found a package from a Toll House plant in Virginia was tainted with E. coli, though DNA tests discovered that it wasn’t the same variant of the bacteria that made people sick. Nestle said on July 9 that no E. coli was discovered at the Virginia plant.