After increasing health concerns, Texas-based Blue Bell Ice Creameries decided to pull all of its products from stores nationwide because the frozen desserts have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
A possible product contamination with Listeria monocytogenes prompted a voluntary recall of approximately 30,000 cases of the Sabra Dipping Co., LLC’s popular hummus brand of products.
Blue Bell Creameries has voluntarily suspended operations at its manufacturing plant in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma to conduct a thorough food safety inspection at the facility and account for any possible areas of contamination after a number of the company’s ice cream products were linked to a Listeriosis outbreak.
Major recalls from a number companies who use organic spinach in their products continue to roll in this week resulting in thousands of products being pulled from the shelves because of a possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
Blue Bell Ice Cream issued a recall for its 3 oz. institutional/food service ice cream cups because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
An outbreak of Listeriosis has been linked to ice cream products manufactured at a Blue Bell Creameries production facility in Brenham, Texas according to FDA.
Rio Tex Wholesale Meats, a Texas establishment, issued a recall of approximately 58,180 pounds of ready-to-eat beef products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The agencies analyzed 1,000 outbreaks that occurred from 1998 to 2012 to assess which categories of foods were most responsible for making people sick.
Results of FDA tests performed on samples collected from the Bidart Bros. apple processing plant confirmed two strains of Listeria monocytogenes were found at the facility and are believed to be the same strains associated with a multi-state outbreak of infections that led to multiple deaths.
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (Listeriosis) linked to commercially produced, prepackaged caramel apples that has caused multiple deaths.