CDC to America: Don't eat raw cookie dough

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Killjoys

The holidays are upon us and for many that means family time in the kitchen preparing delicious baked goods and maybe even licking the spoon before the cookies go into the oven. So the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out a warning this week to, “Say No To Raw Dough!”

Dr. Todd Ellerin -- who admits he doesn’t bake -- said it’s the raw flour and uncooked eggs that can make us sick.

The Director of Infectious Diseases at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts and an instructor at Harvard Medical School says,

“People may not be aware that flour is not treated to destroy bacteria and there have been outbreaks of a certain type of E. coli linked to the ingestion of raw dough,” said Ellerin, director of infectious diseases at South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, Massachusetts and an instructor at Harvard Medical School.

[TexasProgresive]

1. What is weird about this is flour. It is eggs that are usually the problem with eating cookie dough.

Unfortunately raw eggs and chicken are often carriers of salmonella. E-Coli in the flour is a new one on me. Eat raw cookie dough at your own risk. The Salmonella danger in raw eggs has been around for at least 20 years. This is the result of modern American agriculture processes.

[Sherman A1]

2. Well,

there goes dinner.......

[liberal N proud]

3. That was always the best part of mom baking cookies

She would make two batches, one just for us to eat raw.

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4. Mine still gets pissed off if I sneak a bit of cookie dough out of the bowl.