Can you get salmonella poisoning from store bought cookie dough or cake batter ice cream?

Answer 1

The ice cream cookie dough bits have no raw egg in them ,just check Ben and Jerry's site, for store bought cookie dough to be contaminated it would have to have started at the factory.

Also improper holding temps and allowing it to be exposed to the air, leave some out of the frig open one the counter for 3-4 days, and you might be able to, but if cooked the likely hood is small, the egg in most processed foods are pasterized, by infa red light, as the are purchased by manufacturers in bulk, they do not crack 10,000 eggs for product, they are often frozen and treated to remove the contamination risks.

I am a former chef in Canada and in 20 yrs of work, I never worked at or had a food bourne illness happen at my places, that I know of??

Answer 2

As the other person said, yeah you can get it from pretty much anything. Probably if your pharmacist had touched raw chicken before giving you penicillin, you could even get salmonella poisoning from that. But IMO, our society's paranoia with salmonella is unhealthy, because avoiding germs so much leaves our immune systems weak. Imagined if you lived in a bubble your whole life and suddenly walked out on the street in some clean suburban town, smelled the sweet smell of grass, swatted at a bug, and drank from the water. Who knows, you might get sick and die because you'd never have been exposed to allergens, bug germs, or water microbes before. So getting back to your point, just don't be paranoied. Enjoy raw cookie dough as long as you haven't had it sitting out a super long time & the eggs are fresh. And in Chinatown they just keep the eggs out on the counter and not in the fridge and yet the Chinese have somehow evaded salmonella poising well enough to be one of the strongest civilizations in the history of the world. So eat that cookie dough and ice cream and worry more about what it might do to your waistline than your intestine. Just wash your hands after touching raw stuff that used to be alive :).

Answer 3

It could very well be the ice cream. It doesn't have to have been touched by human hands to be contaminated with the Salmonella bacteria. The milk that was used to produce the ice cream could have been contaminated at the dairy and then used to produce the ice cream. The contamination could have originated on the farm that the milke came from. Same goes for the cookie dough, if any of the ingredients where contaminated before the end product was produced, then the end result would be a contaminated product.

Hope I helped.

Answer 4

You can get salmonella poisoning from anywhere, including your own kitchen from cross-contamination. Anything anyone has put their hands on is suspect. The ice cream probably has not been touched by human hands, so out of the two, that one is probably the safest.

Answer 5

If you're going to eat raw cookie dough (YUM) your best bet is to eat the store bought type (Pillsbury, Toll House, etc.) as the eggs used in the dough have been pasturized. However; I have been eating raw homeade cookie dough all of my life and have never gotten sick from it. I'm 43.

Answer 6

yep there was a nationwide case one time where a lot of teenagers got sick from this one ice cream, it's from the eggs