Blue Bell Creameries pleaded guilty on Monday to charges that they distributed adulterated ice cream products and will pay a criminal fine and forfeiture amount totaling $17.25 million. According to the Department of Justice
Continue Reading Blue Bell’s CEO took a long road to criminal charges
Not since the defunct Peanut Corporation of America’s CEO Stewart Parnell was convicted six years ago has an American food industry executive been in as much possible criminal jeopardy as former Blue Bell Creamery
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Truth is, Blue Bell sure made lot’s of news for case about concealment
So says the press release from the Department of Justice today.
Here is something that I wrote almost 5 years ago today:
After watching the Blue Bell Listeria Outbreak unfold over the last months
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Blue Bell Creameries agrees to plead guilty and pay $19.35 million for ice cream Listeria contamination – former company president charged
Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling some half-gallon Butter Crunch Ice Cream produced on a specific line on Aug. 26 at its Sylacauga, AL, plant because of the possibility the products may contain a
Continue Reading Blue Bell customer finds pieces of plastic tool in iconic ice cream
Authors: Angela Spivey, Andrew Phillips, and Alan Pryor
It may come off as a truism that food safety is the “most central consumer safety and legal compliance issue” facing a food and beverage
Continue Reading The Blue Bell ice cream Listeria outbreak and its fallout
I gave the office the 5th off, but had the opportunity to talk with Fox 10 about the “Blue Bell Licker.” According to the report:
Police in East Texas say they have spoken with
Continue Reading 20 years for licking ice cream, 0 years for 10 Listeria illnesses with 3 deaths
If Jeff Bezos and the little online book-selling company he founded in a Seattle garage in 1994 can employ more than 314,000 people and buy Whole Foods Markets for $13.7 billion;
If he and the
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Earlier today, Amazon.com was still selling I.M. Healthy soy nut butter that was recalled in March when federal officials traced an E. coli outbreak to the product.
No one from Seattle-based Amazon immediately responded to
Continue Reading Amazon today removed nut butter recalled in March for E. coli
The owners of a cookie dough company responsible for recalls of Blue Bell and Blue Bunny ice cream and other products in 2016 have ceased operations, thanking the FDA for its oversight.
The recalls and
Continue Reading Cookie dough company closes in wake of recalls for Listeria
Thomas and Nancy Lundeen may never look at Groundhog’s Day the same again. They’ve got until then to respond to an FDA warning letter about Listeria in their cookie dough and production plant — give
Continue Reading Cookie dough producer on notice from FDA for Listeria issues
CORRECTED CONTENT: Blue Bell Creameries wants the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to release it from certain food safety precautions imposed after its ice cream was linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak, seeking permission for
Continue Reading CORRECTED: Blue Bell asks FDA if it can return to ‘industry norm’
