So if you eat cookie dough, you might be eating, in a sense, the diseased-remnants of bird poop. The Food and Drug Administration warned this week that Americans shouldn't eat cookie dough or other raw batters, even if it's egg-free, due to the risk of contracting E. coli . For that reason, the FDA says no more cookie dough -- or anything else raw that you might eat that has flour, like cake, pizza or bread. But this warning is about tainted flour after E. coli outbreaks in recent months were linked to cookie dough made with flour manufactured by General Mills. None of that happens when you eat dough, and you're exposed to much of what happened to the wheat before it came into your kitchen.

Source: Washington Post July 02, 2016 12:13 UTC