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.
Journalism Critic is a prime example of the twisted mentality that chokes down this community. They want their local journalism to be all show and no substance. Thanks you KWHI for reporting the news properly.
THERE IS NO REASON FOR BLUE BELL’S NAME TO BE IN THIS ARTICLE, except as a footnote to the story; certain not in the HEADLINE and especially not the LEAD WORD IN THE HEADLINE. When I went to school, that tactic was called YELLOW JOURNALISM. Today it’s called – I don’t know – clever spinning, I guess.
It is a blatant attempt to once again link listeria with Blue Bell in the minds of the reader. I believe the story (but not the headline “message”) is SUPPLIER Aspen Hills has confirmed that it’s OWN investigation what Blue Bell said the last time this story surfaced.
A more factual headline might be:
COOKIE DOUGH MANUFACTURER/SUPPLIER ANNOUNCES RECALL DUE TO LISTERIA FINDINGS and then about 2 paragraphs in, a reference that it is a supplier to Blue Bell which might have contributed…….
But that wouldn’t fit the narrative regarding private business and especially in a ‘battleground state” like Texas, that national wire services have. (I am NOT accusing KWHI of generating the story. I’m quite sure it is off the wire service news line.) Just saying, one has to read to news closely and carefully to discern the facts.
I respectfully disagree with you, Journalism Critic. This is the same supplier that last month argued that there was no listeria in their product when it was shipped to Blue Bell. Check headlines and stories across the country. If you have a Blue Bell plant in your back yard, it is relevant to mention Blue Bell in the headline and the lead sentence. If you live in the hometown of this company that made the cookie dough…then you might not mention Blue Bell because that company is a bigger part of your community than Blue Bell. It’s all about perspective.