Food recall

Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. recall: BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, Pint, and 3 Gallon sizes.

Blue Bell Creameries, L.P., of Brenham, TX, recalled BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, Pint, and 3 Gallon sizes. and 3 other products. The FDA's reason: “All ice cream products, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookie Two Step ice Cream, Krazy Kookie Dough, and Blue Monster, containing cookie dough supplied by Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for...” The FDA classified it Class I: it could cause serious harm or death. The company began the recall voluntarily on September 20, 2016, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of January 18, 2017. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class I

It could cause serious harm or death

Why

Listeria

Status

Terminated

Closed July 18, 2017

The recall

Company
Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. (Brenham, TX)
Reason, in FDA's words
“All ice cream products, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookie Two Step ice Cream, Krazy Kookie Dough, and Blue Monster, containing cookie dough supplied by Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for them to contain Listeria monocytogenes.”
Where it was sold
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
75254

The 4 products recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-0873-2017 Class I

    BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, Pint, and 3 Gallon sizes.

    Codes: all codes

    Quantity: 4,288,629 units

  • F-0874-2017 Class I

    BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Cookie Two Step, Half Gallon and Pint sizes

    Codes: all codes

    Quantity: 1,531,902 units

  • F-0875-2017 Class I

    BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Blue Monster, 3 Gallons

    Codes: all codes

    Quantity: 8909 units

  • F-0876-2017 Class I

    BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Krazy Kookie Dough, 3 Gallons

    Codes: all codes

    Quantity: 3699 units

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of January 18, 2017.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.