Blue Bell expands recall to all products
The ice-cream maker found other products tainted with listeria, and two more people have fallen ill. The CEO says the brand is ‘committed to doing the 100 percent right thing.’
The Texas-based ice-cream maker expanded its recall Monday after additional product-sample tests came back positive for listeria, which prompted the first recall.
All Blue Bell products—including ice cream, sherbet, frozen yogurt and other frozen snacks—have been pulled from store shelves,
According to The Huffington Post, federal health officials have said they’re aware of 10 cases of listeria linked to Blue Bell’s products, three of which have been linked to deaths in Kansas. The two newest illnesses are in Oklahoma and Arizona.
“We’re committed to doing the 100 percent right thing, and the best way to do that is to take all of our products off the market until we can be confident that they are all safe,” Paul Kruse, Blue Bell’s CEO and president, said Monday in a press release.
Kruse continued:
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