Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream has posted on its website a response to an FDA warning letter made public this week. The letter states environmental samples taken near food and food contact surfaces during an inspection in January and February of this year were positive for Listeria. The inspection was part of a follow-up process after … Read more
The 10th largest multistate food poisoning outbreak of 2015 was the Blue Bell ice cream Listeria outbreak. The outbreak, linked to the nation’s third-largest ice cream maker, sickened at least 10 people from four states. Three of them died. Health officials used DNA tests to identify cases as far back as 2010 that were part of … Read more
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream has traced the source of Listeria problems at its Columbus, Ohio manufacturing facility to one machine used to fill pints, according to the latest update on the company’s website. On April 23, the company recalled all of its ice cream after a sample tested positive for Listeria. The machine was not used … Read more
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream is keeping cutomers informed and employees partially compensated as it grapples with a $2.5 million Listeria recall. After Listeria was found in a pint of dark chocolate ice cream last week, The company’s CEO John Lowe has been posting updates on the company’s website. At the time of the recall, no illnesses … Read more
After the April 23 recall of all of its products for possible Listeria contamination, Jeni’s Splendid Ice cream has posted an update from its CEO, John Lowe, on its website. At this time, no illnesses have been associated with Jeni’s ice cream products. The company set up a communications center at its home office that will … Read more
Listeria surveillance in the deadly Blue Bell ice cream food poisoning outbreak has advanced to include Whole Genome Sequencing, a tool for examining the DNA code of human pathogens that is second to none in accuracy. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Whole Genome Sequencing, or WGS, of the Listeria monocytogenes isolates … Read more
Residents from five Kansas counties have been hit with Listeria food poisoning since January 2014, including five Kansans believed to be sickened by contaminated Blue Bell ice cream served at Via Christi St. Francis Hospital in Wichita. The statistics from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment don’t reveal names or hometowns of those who … Read more
Kroger has pulled recalled Blue Bell products from its stores after they were linked to a Listeria outbreak that sickened five people at Via Christi hospital in Wichita. The company is also using its recall notification system to warn customers of the problem. Between January 2014 and January 2015, five patients at Via Christi contracted … Read more
In the last three months, there have been two Listeria outbreaks linked to ice cream: the Blue Bell Listeria outbreak at Via Christi hospital in Wichita and the Snoqualmie ice cream outbreak in Seattle. The Blue Bell outbreak took place over a 12-month period starting in January 2014, but was only discovered recently. Five people … Read more
Publix and Walmart have pulled Blue Bell ice cream products from their stores after some of them were linked to a Listeria outbreak that sickened five people at a Wichita hospital, killing three of them. From January 2014 to January 2015, five patients at Via Christi hospital contracted listeriosis from contaminated Blue Bell ice cream they … Read more