Blue Bell again recalls ice cream over Listeria concerns
Source: Dallas Morning News
One year after Texas-born Blue Bell returned its ice cream to store shelves following a system-wide recall, the iconic brand is recalling "select products," again due to Listeria concerns.
Brenham-based Blue Bell is voluntarily recalling some products produced in its Sylacauga, Alabama, plant "because they were made with a chocolate chip cookie dough ingredient supplied by third party supplier Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for it to contain Listeria monocytogenes," Blue Bell said late Wednesday.
The Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Blue Bell Cookie Two Step ice cream was not distributed in Texas but was sold in 10 mostly southern states including Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia.
The announcement comes days after Blue Bell returned to parts of North Carolina and South Carolina, two states that are included in the recall.
Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/business/retail/20160921-blue-bell-again-recalls-ice-cream-over-listeria-concerns.ece
The good news is that they identified the cause quickly and it is related to a third-party supplier rather than a problem within the creamery.
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)This may finish the company off this time. I feel sorry for the workers.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I don't see this as being a positive thing for Blue Bell at all.
longship
(40,416 posts)Is it a cookie? Or, is it ice cream?
Nope. It's neither. It's Blue Bell, so it must be listeria!
And somehow I think blaming the supplier isn't going to work this time.
jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)seriously look into industrial sabotage. This is a really sad news cos they are my favorite
Matthew28
(1,798 posts)that save tens of thousands of lives every year, but jerks like Trump want to do away with.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,077 posts)... are always trying to pull crap on the USDA inspectors. Adding too much water or fat. My dad(retired after 32 years) used to be Inspector in Charge at a Smithfield pork processing plant.
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)and they had Listeria in the plant then.
yellowcanine
(35,702 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)They should have stayed small and clean.
Gothmog
(145,666 posts)I have not resumed and for good reason
bhusar
(131 posts)"One taste and can't help, but wonder how Blue Bell, gets so many good things in a carton that size". Wonder if Listeria is one of those good things.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)"One year after Texas-born Blue Bell returned its ice cream to store shelves following a system-wide recall, the iconic brand is recalling "select products," again due to Listeria concerns."
They recalled it, returned it(?), and are recalling it again.
That's persistence.
I think (I hope) I knew what they intended to convey, but I'm gonna stay with the store brand for the time being.
TonyPDX
(962 posts)It's a shame that innocent children suffer when teabaggers oppose safe foods.
keithbvadu2
(36,962 posts)Republicans and libertarians want to get rid of regulations and let "the market' regulate itself.
Heinz Ketchup made an honorable name for themselves going against the libertarian idea of letting the free market do its own thing (regulate itself).
https://thinkprogress.org/heinz-ketchup-proves-that-donald-trump-is-out-of-his-mind-95c8a838a0d0#.c12ulxxdu