BLUE BELL COOKIE DOUGH SUPPLIER ISSUES ANOTHER RECALL

  

The company that supplies chocolate chip cookie dough to Blue Bell’s Alabama plant, is voluntarily pulling more products out of the market because they might have been exposed to Listeria.

Iowa-based Aspen Hills said Monday that it is rercalling a "limited quantity" of its ready-to-eat cookie dough products because they might have come in contact with Listeria monocytogenes, a strain of the bacteria that can cause serious illness or death.

Company officials say personnel failed to consistently follow standard operating procedures, inadequate documentation of protocol, failure to wear proper uniforms and the possibility of cross-contamination.

The announcement comes just weeks after Aspen Hills recalled some batches of a cookie dough product that Blue Bell had used to make its Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Cookie Two Step flavors. As a result, the ice cream giant recalled batches of those products produced in its Alabama plant because they contained that ingredient.

Blue Bell said the products might have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which it discovered after testing from "unopened packages" of the cookie dough product sent to its Brenham plant.