You might see the words “Blue Bell,” “Recall,” and “Listeria” together in a headline, but don’t worry. Blue Bell Ice Cream isn’t headed for another long period of sanitization and pulling the ice cream from stores, as it did last year. This recall is specific to just a few flavors, and the company has linked the contamination to an ingredient from an outside supplier: cookie dough nuggets.
The flavors being recalled are Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Cookie Two Step, both of which include the dough nuggets. Both flavors come in half-gallon containers, while only Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough comes in pints.
What we don’t know yet is whether the dough supplier sells those delicious nuggets to other ice cream companies: if it does, then Blue Bell may have been the first to catch potential contamination, while other creameries don’t have the same stringent testing requirements.
BLUE BELL ICE CREAM RECALLS SELECT PRODUCTS CONTAINING CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH PIECES PURCHASED FROM OUTSIDE SUPPLIER ASPEN HILLS DUE TO POSSIBLE HEALTH RISK [Blue Bell Creameries]
by Laura Northrup via Consumerist