LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 (Chinese media) -- A food company based in southern California announced Monday it was recalling peanut butter cookie dough that might be tainted with salmonella.
The company, Sweet Success Fundraising Inc., said the dough was distributed as part of a fundraising activity to three southern California schools, including two in the Los Angeles area.
A total of 170 of the three-pound tubs of frozen cookie dough, which sell for 14 dollars apiece, could be affected, according to company spokeswoman Lilly Ceja.
"We didn't think twice to protect our reputation," Ceja said, adding that safety was the company's top priority.
But she refuted early reports which suggested that as many as 13 schools throughout southern California were affected by the recall.
State health officials said no illnesses connected with the cookie dough have been reported to date.
The recalled cookie dough was sold to Sweet Success after Dec. 8.
The California Department of Public Health said the frozen cookie dough, which was packaged without lot codes or "use-by" dates, may have been made with peanut butter that was voluntarily recalled by the Peanut Corporation of America.
Last Friday, leading U.S. food manufacturer Kellogg Co. recalled 16 products containing peanut butter after federal officials confirmed salmonella contamination at a Georgia-based plant of the Peanut Corp. of America (PCA), which supplies peanut butter products to manufacturers and institutions.
Salmonella bacteria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, the elderly and others with a weakened immune system. Symptoms in healthy individuals infected with salmonella include fever, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting and abdominal cramps.
The outbreak, first detected in the United States last September, has so far sickened more than 470 people in 43 states, with at least 90 of them having to be hospitalized, and may have caused the death of six others.
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