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
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The Blue Bell ice cream Listeria outbreak and its fallout
Opinion
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
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20 years for licking ice cream, 0 years for 10 Listeria illnesses with 3 deaths
Opinion
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
Beach Beat: It’s not rocket science, it’s computer science
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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Amazon today removed nut butter recalled in March for E. coli
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
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Cookie dough company closes in wake of recalls for Listeria
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
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Cookie dough producer on notice from FDA for Listeria issues
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
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CORRECTED: Blue Bell asks FDA if it can return to ‘industry norm’
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
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Top food safety stories of 2016 include criminal investigations
The editors of Food Safety News have complied this list of major news from 2016. While the year will no doubt be best remember for its presidential election, there were other milestones worth remembering as
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Beach Beat: A little dab’ll do ya when it comes to Listeria
Those nerds at the FDA and CDC have been at it again, thank goodness.
They took a crazy close look at the Listeria outbreak traced to Blue Bell Creameries ice cream and found evidence supporting
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UPDATED: Cookie dough recall hits Weight Watchers frozen desserts
UPDATED CONTENT: A spokeswoman for Weight Watchers provided the following statement. “To clarify, the voluntary recall of Weight Watchers Smart Ones Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae is being issued by Kraft Heinz Company, the
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