Nestle USA, which is under investigation over its cookie dough, refused to give Food and Drug Administration inspectors documents on pest-control and other issues, according to the Wall Street Journal.

A WSJ report today says inspection reports covering the past five years show that officials at the company's Danville, Va. plant, which made the suspect dough, "refused to allow a Food and Drug Administration inspector to review consumer complaints or inspect its program designed to prevent food contamination."

The WSJ goes on to say that "the inspector found dirty equipment and 'three live anti-like insects' on a ledge but nothing severe enough to give the plant a failing grade."

The company said in a statement that "Nestle simply provided the FDA with all information required under the law." The company said that practice was "standard within the food industry."

The company closed the Danville plant last week after federal officials linked Nestle Toll House cookie dough to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.

The bacterium, which is usually found in cattle feces, can cause severe illness or even death. No one has died in the outbreak but nearly 70 have been sickened, including 34 who were hospitalized and nine who developed kidney failure.

Oregon has one confirmed case -- a Gresham teenager who was severely sick for three weeks but appears to be fully recovered.

Federal officials are inspecting the Danville facility, looking for clues as to how E. coli O157:H7, which is usually associated with cattle feces, could have gotten into the dough.

Nestle says it has never found the bacterium in any of its products.

For more information, check the FDA Web site at www.FDA.gov. The CDC Web site is at www.CDC.gov.

-- Lynne Terry; lynneterry@news.oregonian.com