Food Safety Flaws Noted at Blue Bell’s Texas Ice Cream Plant
The Blue Bell ice cream plant associated with the highly publicized Kansas Listeria outbreak exhibited multiple food safety flaws noted by a group of 11 FDA inspectors who visited the facility during...
View ArticleFDA Inspection Report of Blue Bell Brenham, Texas Plant
The FDA has released three inspection reports of the Blue Bell ice cream facilities: one in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, one in Brenham, Texas, and the third in Sylacauga, Alabama. We thought it would be a...
View ArticleFDA Report on Blue Bell Broken Arrow, OK Ice Cream Plant
The Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to Blue Bell ice cream has sickened 10 people and killed three of those patients. The FDA has issued a report on each of Blue Bell’s facilities after...
View ArticleBlue Bell Listeria Agreements Require Ice Cream ‘Test and Hold’
Listeria patients who were treated at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita as part of the Blue Bell ice cream outbreak, and hospital officials themselves, may be interested to hear that Blue...
View ArticleBlue Bell Lawsuit Refers to Via Christi Hospital Outbreak
The nation’s first Blue Bell ice cream Listeria lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Texas includes details of similarity between a retirement home director in Houston who nearly died of Listeria...
View ArticleWhy It Was Important for Texas Listeria Patient to Sue Blue Bell
D. Philip Shockley was in such pain and physical distress that he collapsed inside his Houston area apartment, where he was later found unconscious by a co-worker who was concerned about his...
View ArticleListeria Patient Who Sued Blue Bell Barely Escaped Death
The former Texas resident who is the first person to sue Blue Bell ice cream in connection with a deadly Listeria outbreak endured well over a year of intensive neurological treatment, therapy and...
View ArticleRules Set for Alabama Ice Cream Plant after Listeria Recall
Alabama and Blue Bell Creameries have reached agreement on rules that will surround the reopening of the company’s ice cream plant in the state. Operations in Sylacauga, Alabama, were interupted April...
View ArticleBlue Bell Listeria Lawsuit Assigned to Judge Lee Yeakel
The nation’s first lawsuit filed in the Blue Bell ice cream Listeria outbreak has been assigned to U.S. District Court Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin, Texas. The case centers on the near-fatal illness in...
View ArticleVia Christi Hospital Cases Brought Blue Bell Outbreak to Light
Three months have passed since Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita, Kansas, stopped serving all types of Blue Bell ice cream at the direction of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment...
View ArticleBlue Bell Restarts Limited Ice Cream Production After Listeria Outbreak
After a deadly Listeria outbreak triggered a shutdown of its ice cream manufacturing facilities, Blue Bell Creameries is restarting production on a limited basis. During a test period, production will...
View ArticleBlue Bell Builds Inventory for Return After Listeria Outbreak
Blue Bell Creameries is building inventory for a return to retail sales after a deadly Listeria outbreak forced a temporary shutdown. In a Facebook post, the company told customers to “stay tuned in...
View ArticleBlue Bell Trucks Hit the Road for First Time Since Listeria Outbreak
Trucks full of Blue Bell ice cream are on delivery routes for the first time since a deadly Listeria outbreak forced a temporary closure of all three Blue Bell manufacturing facilities. In a Facebook...
View ArticleBlue Bell: No Worries, But We’re Still Finding Listeria in Our Plant
Almost a year after it was linked to an outbreak that killed three people, Blue Bell Creameries is still finding Listeria in its manufacturing facilities. But it’s nothing to worry about and it’s...
View ArticleAfter Listeria Outbreak, Texas Fines Blue Bell $850,000
After being linked to a 2015 Listeria outbreak that sickened at least 10 people, killing three of them, Blue Bell Creameries has been fined $850,000 by the the Texas Department of State Health Services...
View ArticleBlue Bell’s Listeria Clarification Needs Clarification
Two recent announcements from Blue Bell Creameries about new food safety measures following the deadly Listeria outbreak linked to its ice cream have people wondering: has the company recently found...
View ArticleBlue Bell Ice Cream Recalled for Listeria
Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling some products made in its Sylacauga, Alabama plant because they were made with a chocolate chip cookie dough ingredient supplied by Aspen Hills that may be...
View ArticleBlue Bell Wants to Ease Listeria Precautions
According to the Houston Chronicle, Blue Bell wants to drop the precautionary standards it put in place after the deadly Listeria monocytogenes outbreak linked to its products was revealed in 2014. Ten...
View ArticleBlue Bell Pleads Guilty in Ice Cream Listeria Monocytogenes Outbreak
Blue Bell pleads guilty in ice cream Listeria monocytogenes outbreak and pays $19.35 million. And a former company president has been charged in connection with a scheme to allegedly cover up the...
View ArticleTexas Court Sentenced Blue Bell Creameries; Will Pay $17.25 Million in 2015...
A federal court in Texas has sentenced Blue Bell Creameries to pay $17.5 million in criminal penalties in association with the deadly 2015 Listeria monocytogenes outbreak that killed three people who...
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