NEW YORK, June 26, 2009
Nestle Refused Info To FDA, Report Claims
Complaint Logs, Pest-Control Records Never Sent; Company Recently Recalled Cookie Dough
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The FDA informed the company it suspected consumers may have been exposed to E. coli bacteria after eating the dough raw. (AP)
Nestle voluntarily recalled all Toll House refrigerated cookie dough products made at the 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.
The Centers for Disease Control says 69 people have been sickened in 29 states.
The FDA's reports on the Virginia plant back to 2004.
FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek said the Glendale, Calif.-based unit of Switzerland-based Nestle SA was not obligated to allow inspectors access.
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Why do we even have an FDA?
have common sense you simply don't eat raw dough. It sets in a bowl
your butter or shortening. A few minutes with mixer and then you add
egg and vanilla.. once creamy, you add your dry ingredients.. STir why
the big deal folks.. I plan to do that today as I make cookies for the
local VA hospital residents. Secondly when you make your own dough, you have complete control of what's in your cookie. You just made a
product on American soil
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Somebody call the CDC and let em know we found the source of the E. Coli outbreak at the VA hospital.
Yet, 69 people in 29 states have been stricken by THEIR contaminated product(s)?!
IF no one is regulating this company, either at the Federal or State level, then why have records?
And, why REFUSE to show them? You would just say that!
I'd guess the State hasn't been conducting inspections as required, so the company doesn't have
any recent paperwork to show! But, I'd also guess---
That now that they have POISONED so many consumers that the State Inspectors will get off their
arses and do what they should have done a long time ago! Right?
After all, it being an emergency situation and the State wanting to avoid massive lawsuits from
poisoned citizens because it didn't inspect this plant as it should have! OOPS!
This is the result of the markets regulating themselves... or in other words, no regulation at all... a government granted license to steal what little wealth they let us amass before the next big bubble bursts.
We should follow the money with pitchforks and blazing torches and burn the profiteers at the stake before they do it again!
What the FDA is not sharing, but everyone should wonder--what was the punitive action when Nestle refused to provide the data? The answer is--probably nothing. Laws with no teeth and Congress and agencies with no political will to do nothing but let them rule the roost and do as they please.
Maybe we should look at other stuff we deregulated then. It might not have been a good idea.....OMG surely they didn't do the same with banks and Wall Street did they?
BTW: I have some beach property for sale (Five hundred acres from the waters edge due east in Myrtle Beach SC, $1000 per acre...)
- by skyk-2009 June 26, 2009 2:48 PM EDT
- "Was not obligated"? Should we make sure they ARE obligated in the future?
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- by ToolMangler1 June 26, 2009 9:39 PM EDT
- Well until they 'Are' obligated to be up front with America, I and my family will nolonger buy "ANY" Nestle Pruducts. I prefer Hersheys anyway. For thoser of you that think Nestle owns Hershey as reported last year, here is todays news about it
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See all 16 Comments"The London Daily Telegraph reported that Hershey Co. is working on selling a 25% stake in itself to Nestle SA, with an option for Nestle to buy the remaining stake within the next two years. "
http://www.thedeal.com/dealscape/2008/09/nestle_may_swallow_part_of_her.php