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ABC Brian Hartman Exlusive
– Again: Nestle Cookie Dough Loaded With Three Kinds of E. coli – Minnesota
Family Link Source of
Article: http://www.marlerblog.com/ Mr. E. coli (aka Brian
Hartman) once again scoops all in the ongoing Cookie Dough caper. Here is
part of his story: Federal
investigators have linked at least three different kinds of E. coli to
Nestle’s cookie dough but remain stumped about how the bacteria got into the
product, ABC News has learned. The
U.S. Food and Drug Administration has completed DNA testing of E. coli
recently found in an unopened package of cookie dough at Nestle’s plant in
Danville, Va. Those
tests, according to sources familiar with the investigation and confirmed by
the FDA, determined the genetic fingerprint of the E. coli found at the plant
is different than E. coli that has been linked to a 30-state outbreak that
has sickened at least six dozen people. Sources
also say an altogether different strain of E. coli was found in dough
recovered from the home of a victim, meaning at least three different types
of E. coli have been found in cookie dough made by Nestle. It is my understanding that
E. coli O157:H7 found in the stools of the 72 people in 30 states share the
same PFGE pattern (outbreak strain) and that 51 of those have been linked by
advanced testing methods (MLVA). Interestingly, but not surprisingly (1), a
separate E. coli O157:H7 PFGE pattern was found in a retained sample of
Nestle Cookie Dough for in the Danville Plant. In addition, one of our
client’s (a Minnesota Family) leftover Cookie Dough tested positive for a
separate Shiga-toxin E. coli – E. coli O124. However, both sick children
tested positive for the outbreak strain. (1) Proctor ME,
Kurzynski T, Koschmann C, et. al. Four strains of Escherichia coli O157:H7
isolated from patients during an outbreak of disease associated with
ground beef: importance of evaluating multiple colonies from an
outbreak-associated product. J Clin Microbiol. 2002 Apr;40(4):1530-3. |
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