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Is the FDA being Grinch-like in raising concerns about raw cookie dough?

  • Written by Brian Zikmund-Fisher, Associate Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Associate Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
Is the FDA being Grinch-like in raising concerns about raw cookie dough?"Don't do it!" said FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb of eating raw cookie dough. Sandy Morelli/Shutterstock.com

For many people, the holiday ritual of baking cookies isn’t complete without also eating some of the raw dough. In my family, questions like “Who gets to lick the beaters?” and “Can I grab a piece of dough?”...

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