Oops, I see it's been covered. Did a search and nothing came up but I didn't look on next page or two...... As Emily Lytella would say, "never mind!"

However... cookie dough poisoning should be a criminal offense. Granted, cooking it takes care of it but still the handling causes trouble.

I remember my mother telling me not to eat raw cookie dough because of the raw eggs in the batter. Still liked it.

Do they know the source of the e coli in the recipe?

Don't think they've determined it yet. At least not that I've heard. I too grew up eating peanut butter cookie dough and that's still a favorite treat of mine. Haven't had any in years though. I've always been real careful to use rather fresh eggs, at least as fresh as I can get from a store. Although as long as they're kept refrigerated properly. Forgive me "Two Fat Ladies", I know you're choking at the thought!

I seriously doubt the e coli was from eggs. They often don't even use RAW eggs in pre packaged cookie dough..It was somewhere else in the processing of the dough.

For those of you that want to eat "cookie" dough raw...and are afraid of raw eggs..

Here is a link that might be useful: Eggless raw cookie dough