Nestle Resumes Cookie-Dough Production After E.coli Scare

The FDA is wrapping up its investigation of Nestlé USA’s cookie-dough plant and production has resumed in the plant in Danville, Va.

Tests showed that the E. coli found in a package of cookie dough at the plant didn’t match the DNA fingerprint of the strain that has caused at least 72 illnesses in 30 states.

The CDC established that a high percentage of victims, many of them teenage and preteen girls, ate raw Toll House dough before becoming sick.

Nestlé will mark all new products with a label indicating it is a “New Batch” as well as reminders to consumers to not consume raw cookie dough.