Podcast # 427: Cookie Dough is Delicious

 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