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07-16-2016, 11:08 PM
It's probably OK to eat the cookie dough
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The following three statements are all true: Eating cookie dough (http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm198037.htm) can be dangerous, even after we’ve dealt with any raw eggs. I am a public health faculty member and an expert in health risk communication. My family and I eat raw cookie dough regularly.
If it seems implausible that all three of those statements can be simultaneously true, let me explain.
To start, when most people think about health risks and cookie dough, they think about raw egg. Eggs can be contaminated with salmonella (http://abcnews.go.com/US/eating-raw-cookie-dough-led-moms-death-son/story?id=26896037) bacteria, and food safety recommendations encourage people to cook eggs until the white and yolk are firm (https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/mintemp.html) in order to kill any bacteria. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/raw-flour-cookie-dough/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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The following three statements are all true: Eating cookie dough (http://www.fda.gov/Food/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm198037.htm) can be dangerous, even after we’ve dealt with any raw eggs. I am a public health faculty member and an expert in health risk communication. My family and I eat raw cookie dough regularly.
If it seems implausible that all three of those statements can be simultaneously true, let me explain.
To start, when most people think about health risks and cookie dough, they think about raw egg. Eggs can be contaminated with salmonella (http://abcnews.go.com/US/eating-raw-cookie-dough-led-moms-death-son/story?id=26896037) bacteria, and food safety recommendations encourage people to cook eggs until the white and yolk are firm (https://www.foodsafety.gov/keep/charts/mintemp.html) in order to kill any bacteria. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/16/raw-flour-cookie-dough/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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