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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow Eating Raw Cookie Dough Led to One Mom's Death, Son Recalls
https://gma.yahoo.com/eating-raw-cookie-dough-led-one-moms-death-231048179--abc-news-topstories.htmlHis mother died an agonizing death, possibly because she ate a few bites of raw cookie dough years earlier.
Richard Simpson, of Las Vegas, recounted his mom's painful battle with E. coli today at an FDA hearing about stricter regulations on food production.
Linda Rivera died last summer, four years after she ate a few spoonfuls of prepackaged cookie dough that was later found to be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli. First, her kidneys stopped functioning and she went into septic shock. Over the years, she became sicker as more organs failed and she was in and out of the hospital for operations....
"Eventually, her body just couldn't take it," said Bill Marler, Rivera's friend and the attorney who handled her claim against Nestle, which manufactured the contaminated cookie dough in 2009.
Richard Simpson, of Las Vegas, recounted his mom's painful battle with E. coli today at an FDA hearing about stricter regulations on food production.
Linda Rivera died last summer, four years after she ate a few spoonfuls of prepackaged cookie dough that was later found to be contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli. First, her kidneys stopped functioning and she went into septic shock. Over the years, she became sicker as more organs failed and she was in and out of the hospital for operations....
"Eventually, her body just couldn't take it," said Bill Marler, Rivera's friend and the attorney who handled her claim against Nestle, which manufactured the contaminated cookie dough in 2009.
Nestle! Why did they have to buy DiGiorno frozen pizza?
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How Eating Raw Cookie Dough Led to One Mom's Death, Son Recalls (Original Post)
KamaAina
Nov 2014
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bananas
(27,509 posts)1. I hope you don't eat frozen pizza without cooking it. nt
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. I try not to.
The point is that Nestle is evil in many other ways, such as sucking groundwater from Indian reservations in drought-stricken SoCal.
cali
(114,904 posts)3. I'll eat my own raw cookie dough but not packaged stuff