Nestle refused FDA information, reports show

Source: AP

By LAUREN SHEPHERD

NEW YORK (AP) - Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information.

The records, which date back to 2004, were made public after Nestle's Toll House refrigerated, prepackaged cookie dough was discovered to be the likely culprit in an E. coli outbreak that has sickened 69 people in 29 states, according to the latest estimates from the federal Centers for Disease Control. The CDC is investigating the outbreak along with the FDA.

Nestle voluntarily recalled all Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products made at the Danville, Va., factory late last week after the FDA informed the company it suspected consumers may have been exposed to E. coli bacteria after eating the dough raw.


In this June 18, 2009 file photo, a package of Nestle Toll House Fudgy Brownie refrigerated dough is seen in Springfield, Ill. Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday, June 26, show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, file)


According to the reports released by the FDA, the company refused to allow FDA investigators access to certain documents in at least 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

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I've held a boycott against them (and subsidiaries like Contadina, Carnation, and Libby's) since about 1986 because of their shameless practice of pushing baby formula in third world countries. They send in representatives dressed like medical personnel to explain to new mothers why their formula is superior to breast milk (obviously false). They give them enough free samples to dry up their breast supply and the women end up stretching the expensive formula they are then forced to buy to make it last using questionable water supplies. Yes, this kills babies and they don't give a shit.

My wife is even more rabid about it than I am - and that's saying something.

They have so many products sometimes it's hard to tell.

I despise the corporation.

I studiously avoid their stuff for that reason, and because I honestly don't trust them enough to consider eating their food.

Not even formula. They pushed dried cow's milk in Paraguay.

Thanks, Eric Schlosser.

sugar, flour, butter, baking soda, vanilla....etc.

I don't notice too much difference in the dough without the egg, but when necessary, I use a product like Egg Beaters for things that might end up being eaten by someone without being cooked.

yes, the FDA and GMP are a pain in the ass, but that is the nature of the business.

and for the record i have been making my OWN damn chocolate chip cookies for over 10 years now. screw that packaged crap.

That means the bush years. He gutted the FDA and with their no or few inspectors I can guess that someone at Nestle really pissed someone high up in the administration off. Big time!

...workers put into preprocesssed, prepackaged food, A lot more people would prepare their own.

Won't be hard for me. I can get my chocolate elsewhere. And I don't BUY frickin' factory-made cookie dough.

Somebody needs to teach those assholes the meaning of the word "consequences".

My Gawd, they have lobbyists to prevent this ridiculous persecution. Pffft!

that's all........