{"id":83398,"date":"2016-07-01T10:36:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=83398"},"modified":"2016-07-01T10:37:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T17:37:43","slug":"raw-cookie-dough-ecoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/raw-cookie-dough-ecoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry, You Can&#8217;t Eat Raw Cookie Dough Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sad\u00a0news, very sad news everyone.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/30\/fda-raw-cookie-dough\/#j9fJjfnTe5qf\" target=\"_blank\">The FDA announced on Tuesday<\/a> that consumers should not be eating\u00a0raw cookie dough and other raw doughs and batters in general as they may be contaminated with e.coli.<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/ecoli\/2016\/o121-06-16\/\" target=\"_blank\">released a statement<\/a> in June which stated that flour produced at General Mills is the likely\u00a0source of outbreak strain STEC 0121 &#8212; 31 people have already been infected and 10 people have been hospitalized.<\/p>\n<p>In order to avoid flour-related illnesses, the CDC advises consumers to\u00a0not eat raw dough or batter and to\u00a0bake raw items\u00a0before consuming them.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ForConsumers\/ConsumerUpdates\/ucm508450.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FDA explained<\/a>\u00a0why\u00a0flour is highly likely to be\u00a0contaminated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flour is derived from a grain that comes directly from the field and typically is not treated to kill bacteria,\u201d says Leslie Smoot, Ph.D., a senior advisor in FDA\u2019s Office of Food Safety and a specialist in the microbiological safety of processed foods. So if an animal heeds the call of nature in the field, bacteria from the animal waste could contaminate the grain, which is then harvested and milled into flour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s time to cut back on the cookie dough binges.<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Sad\u00a0news, very sad news everyone.\u00a0The FDA announced on Tuesday that consumers should not be eating\u00a0raw ...","author":422344,"featured_media":83399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/01100814\/shutterstock_270493550-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/01100814\/shutterstock_270493550.jpg","formated_date":"July 1, 2016","category_name":"Health","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113835\/health-2.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#5259dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}