Jan 24, 2019
Author: Eric Miller, MD
Educational Pearls:
- Recent CDC statement warms against consumption of cookie dough
- Two common ingredients can pose risk: eggs and flour
- Flour in dough is a raw agricultural product not treated to kill E. coli
- A 2016 E. coli outbreak was linked to flour
References:
https://www.cdc.gov/features/no-raw-dough/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2016/o121-06-16/index.html
Summarized by Travis Barlock, MS4 | Edited by Erik Verzemnieks, MD