Dhulum, June 23: The Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) issued warning Monday against 48 brands of cookie products which have been found to be tainted with a potentially deadly form of E. coli.
Some of these products are feared to be locally available.
The SFDA is taking measures that these products are taken off the shelves.
The warning comes after 66 people in 28 US states fell sick after eating the tainted cookie dough.
The US Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention asked consumers last week not to eat prepackaged Nestle Toll House refrigerated cookie dough.
Nestle, a Swiss food giant that runs its US operations out of Glendale, has launched a voluntary recall of all varieties of Nestle refrigerated dough, including sheets, tubes and tubs of dough for cookies, bars and seasonal items.
“We want to strongly advise consumers that raw cookie dough should not be eaten. This message also appears prominently on our packaging. Nestle Toll House cookies made from refrigerated dough are safe to consume when baked as directed on the package,” Nestle was quoted as saying.
–Agencies–