{"id":15306,"date":"2019-12-04T03:02:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T09:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/?p=15306"},"modified":"2020-03-06T17:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T23:24:09","slug":"say-no-to-raw-cookie-dough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/food-safety-news\/say-no-to-raw-cookie-dough\/","title":{"rendered":"Say No to Raw Cookie Dough"},"content":{"rendered":"
While preparing your delicious holiday baked goods, be aware that eating or tasting unbaked products, such as dough or batter, can make you sick.<\/p>\n
Raw cookie dough can contain bacteria – like salmonella and e. coli – that can cause foodborne illness.\u00a0 Follow important food safety principles to help everyone stay healthy when handling raw dough.<\/p>\n
In fact, the FDA has issued warnings for people to not eat raw cookie dough, and other products with untreated flour, due to an E. coli risk and raw eggs from a salmonella risk.<\/p>\n
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Flour is typically a raw agricultural product. This means it hasn\u2019t been treated to kill germs like Escherichia coli (E. coli).<\/em> Harmful germs can contaminate grain while it\u2019s still in the field or at other steps as flour is produced. The bacteria are killed when food made with flour is cooked. This is why you should never taste or eat raw dough or batter\u2014whether made from recalled flour or any other flour.<\/p>\n In 2016, an outbreak of E. coli <\/em>infections linked to raw flour made 63 people sick. Flour products have long shelf lives and could be in people\u2019s homes for a long time. If you have any recalled flour products in your home, throw them away.<\/p>\n In addition, raw eggs that are used to make raw dough or batter can contain Salmonella<\/em> that can make you sick if the eggs are eaten raw or lightly cooked. Eggs are safe to eat when cooked and handled properly.<\/p>\n E. coli – <\/strong>The symptoms of E. coli<\/em> infections vary for each person but often include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea (often bloody), and vomiting.<\/p>\n People usually get sick 3 to 4 days after swallowing the germ. Most people recover within a week. However, some people develop a serious type of kidney failure called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS).<\/p>\n Salmonella – <\/strong>The symptoms of Salmonella<\/em> infections typically appear 6 to 48 hours after eating a contaminated food, though this period is sometimes longer. Symptoms typically include diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps.<\/p>\n In most cases, illness lasts 4 to 7 days and people recover without antibiotics. Illness from Salmonella<\/em> bacteria can be serious and is more dangerous for older adults, infants, and people with weakened immune systems.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Are you celebrating National Cookie Day baking your favorite cookies? If you’re tempted to eat raw cookie dough, don\u2019t do it! Find out why eating raw flour and raw eggs are not safe..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1106],"tags":[1245,1277,82,1359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15306"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19245,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions\/19245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foodsafetytrainingcertification.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Food Safety & Allergy Training - 10% OFF SALE<\/div>\r\n
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