“Brenham-based Blue Bell Creameries is pulling all of its products from the shelves after more ice cream samples tested positive for a life-threatening bacterial infection.”
The voluntary decision, announced Monday, is the latest and most sweeping development to plague the Texas business icon since a recall last month, the first in the company’s 108-year history.
It came after an “enhanced sampling program” that found half-gallon containers of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream produced on March 17 and March 27 contained the Listeria monocytogenes bacteria, company officials said.
Plus this:
“The latest tests mean the company had several positive tests for Listeria in different plants.”
Pretty hard to fathom a wide-spread outbreak in multiple plants. The only explanations I can think of:
- A hardy new strain of Listeria is running wild in Texas cow herds
- A mutant Listeria has evolved to survive pasteurization (a pretty scary thought)
- There’s a problem somewhere in their additive supply chain
- Sabotage/Eco-terrorism (PETA hates dairies).
Anyway, if you have any Blue Bell in your freezer, it’s probably safest to throw it out…
(Copied from Futuramen.)