Posted on 09/22/2016 5:54:38 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Blue Bell Creameries recalled select flavors of ice cream distributed across the South after finding chocolate chip cookie dough from a third-party supplier for use as an ingredient was potentially contaminated with listeria, the Brenham, Texas-based company announced Wednesday.
Blue Bell said it was recalling half gallons and pints of Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and half gallons of Blue Bell Cookie Two Step made at its Sylacauga, Alabama, creamery after intensified internal testing found the cookie dough from Garner, Iowa-based Aspen Hills Inc. potentially tainted, according to a Blue Bell statement.
No illnesses have been reported from the ice cream distributed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, the company said.
Blue Bell said the recall involves Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough half gallons with the code date 082618226 on the carton bottoms and pints with the code dates 081518242 and 082418242, as well as Cookie Two Step half gallons with the code dates 080418222 and 081818224. Consumers should return the affected cartons to their place of purchase for full refunds.
In October, CBS News did a series of investigations on the Blue Bell Ice Cream factory in Texas, that was linked to an outbreak of listeria.
During the outbreak, 10 people became sick and three died. The company recalled 8 million gallons of ice cream. Before this, Blue Bell was the number three brand in the country and was sold in 23 states.
In the three part series, former workers detailed the complaints they shared with Blue Bell management, which went largely ignored. And CBS News looked at how random testing led to the discovery of the deadly bacteria and how investigators were able to crack the case.
Listeria can cause serious, sometimes fatal infections in young children and frail or elderly people, as well as those with weakened immune systems. Healthy people may suffer short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, but the infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among expectant mothers.
Cookie dough ice cream is just asking for trouble.
This is either intentional sabotage within the company( how many third world workers are on the production line?) or incredible incompetence and neglect re. cleanliness and repair. Either way, the company’s rep is done. I won’t buy it anymore. High prices AND contamination worries? Not worth it.
My thoughts too. muslim “refugees” are being put into food production jobs and it is probably for a reason. That’s why I won’t purchase chobani yogurt anymore.
“There’s more than just ice cream in a carton of Blue Bell...”
Chobani- ‘Greek’ yogurt company owned by a Muslim. Eat bacon-it tastes better and it’s Muslim Raid.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! Not again!
We just got it back in the stores here.
Man...is my wife gonna be pissed if they pull it all again....
AND: You would think after all of this crap each and every step of their supply chain would be checked and quadruple checked. Wonder if its sabotage.
I buy Blue Bell often and this last carton I bought was definitely contaminated. It gave me the chits and I even shared a little with my dogs. One or more of them ate grass to make themselves throw up the ice cream. Dogs can handle a lot more without any affect than we humans can and it still affected at least one of them.
I’m in AZ and so far that’s the only effect I had from it but I think my days of buying Blue Bell are now over with. If the goal of contaminating it was to hurt business; it succeeded with me.
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