Blue Bell Listeriosis_Outbreak.docx NS-305 The Blue Bell Listeriosis Outbreak of 2010-20

Blue Bell Listeriosis_Outbreak.docx  NS-305  The Blue Bell Listeriosis Outbreak of 2010-2015  Purdue University Global NS-305  Food Safety and Microbiology   The Blue Bell Listeriosis Outbreak of 2010-2015  Who is the target when food guidelines are not being met? A couple of the targets are the consumer and employees. When working with food, there are strict guidelines that need to be met to keep people safe from foodborne illnesses. Food safety starts with the owner or manager and moves down to the person that prepares the food or the person that runs the machine. We all have a duty to the consumer and that is to keep them safe. Losing a life because of omission of information can be a very costly mistake.  In the case of Blue Bell Ice Cream, the CEO was made aware of a listeria contamination in his South Carolina plant by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Contro1 in February of 2015. The Texas Department of State Health Services also tested some products at the Texas plant after being made aware of the contaminate in the South Carolina plant, and found the same contaminate in several products (CDC, 2015). Blue Bell had been in business for 104 years and this was their first recall. They were not prepared for what could happen. Their plants needed a lot of work and management was putting quantity over quality. CBSs  Jim Axelrod reported that according to Terry Shultz, a former employer of Texas Blue Bell factory, the plant had unsanitary conditions, and he said “ice cream pooling on t