Recall of Cookie Dough Sold at Costco Has Just Been Expanded

There's nothing quite like raw cookie dough that makes your sweet tooth happy. If you like to eat cookie dough, or if you've bought some recently to make cookies, you will want to make sure it isn't on a long recall list.

The Food and Drug Administration expanded a recall of frozen cookie dough that may be contaminated with salmonella, the organization announced. There are a lot of different cookie dough products on this list.

What We Know

The recalled products include "Costco Chocolate Chunk Frozen Cookie Dough," "Member's Mark Chocolate Chunk," "Panera Chocolate Chipper Cookie," "Rise Baking Jumbo Chocolate Chunk," "Mini Chocolate Chip Cookie," "Panera Oatmeal Raisin with Berries Cookie," "Panera Kitchen Sink Cookie," and "Rise Baking Company Cowboy Cookie."

Related: Over 20,000 Cases of Cookie Dough Sold at Popular Chain Recalled Over Salmonella Concerns

"Member's Mark" products are sold exclusively at Sam's Club.

In total, the FDA is recalling 29,019 cases of possibly contaminated products.

The affected products were distributed in California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Florida, Illinois, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Colorado, Louisiana, Texas, Missouri, Minnesota, Oklahoma, New York, Michigan, Indiana, Maryland, New Jersey, and Georgia, according to the FDA's website.

Why Was It Updated?

The recall was first announced on May 2, but in June it was further expanded and classified by the FDA as a "Class II recall."

A Class II recall is the second-highest classification of the FDA's recalls, according to its website.

These are issued when there is "a situation in which use of, or exposure to, a violative product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences or where the probability of serious adverse health consequences is remote," says the FDA's website.

Anyone who has these products is advised to throw them away or return them to the store, and not to consume the cookies.

What is Salmonella?

Salmonella is a bacterium that lives inside the intestinal tracks of animals, says the Mayo Clinic. Salmonellosis, the scientific name for an infection with salmonella, occurs when a person consumes food or water contaminated with the bacteria.

While some people do not develop any symptoms, "most people develop diarrhea, fever and stomach (abdominal) cramps within 8 to 72 hours after exposure," said the Mayo Clinic.

An otherwise healthy person can expect to recover from salmonella within a few days to a week, but people are at increased risk of complications if the infection spreads past the GI tract. Children, the elderly, pregnant women, and those with weakened immune systems are at greater risk of complications form Salmonella.

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