Two people have gotten sick in New Hampshire from eating Nestle Cookie Dough. So far it concerns the Toll House Refrigerated Raw Cookie Dough and the fact that it might be contaminated with E. coli.
Cooking the cookie dough will kill the E. coli, however New Hampshire officials say that if you have this in your home you should just throw it out. They are concerned that the bacteria could be consumed or spread just by the handling of it with your hands and on the surfaces in your kitchen.
After a quickie goverment investigation, they found that there is good reason to think that the illnesses of 65 people in 29 states is linked to the raw cookie dough.
I think a good home policy for all of us is “When in doubt, throw it out”.