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FDA Warns Consumers Not to Eat Nestle Toll House Prepackaged, Refrigerated Cookie Dough
Fri, Jun 19th, 2009
Nestle Voluntarily Recalls all Varieties of Prepackaged, Refrigerated Toll House Cookie Dough
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E. coli O157:H7 (a bacterium that causes food borne illness).
The FDA advises that if consumers have any prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products in their home that they throw them away. Cooking the dough is not recommended because consumers might get the bacteria on their hands and on other cooking surfaces.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning consumers not to eat any varieties of prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough due to the risk of contamination with E. coli O157:H7 (a bacterium that causes food borne illness).
The FDA advises that if consumers have any prepackaged, refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough products in their home that they throw them away. Cooking the dough is not recommended because consumers might get the bacteria on their hands and on other cooking surfaces.
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World Health Organization raises pandemic level
Wed, Jun 17th, 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a stage six pandemic, raising its pandemic level from stage five. The organization raised its level to stage six to reflect widespread worldwide cases of the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu.
The H1N1 virus has thus far produced mild flu symptoms, except in those with underlying medical conditions.
According to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) the current H1N1 mortality rate is .14 percent in the United States and a worldwide mortality rate of .6 percent.
WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus in late April. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization noted that, “although this particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans, the virus is entirely new.”
It is contagious and spreads easily from one person to another, and from one country to another. As of June 11, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries. Chan stated that “the world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic” and that “we are in the earliest days of the pandemic.”
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The H1N1 virus has thus far produced mild flu symptoms, except in those with underlying medical conditions.
According to the latest data from the World Health Organization (WHO) the current H1N1 mortality rate is .14 percent in the United States and a worldwide mortality rate of .6 percent.
WHO announced the emergence of a novel influenza A virus in late April. Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization noted that, “although this particular H1N1 strain has not circulated previously in humans, the virus is entirely new.”
It is contagious and spreads easily from one person to another, and from one country to another. As of June 11, nearly 30,000 confirmed cases have been reported in 74 countries. Chan stated that “the world is now at the start of the 2009 influenza pandemic” and that “we are in the earliest days of the pandemic.”
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