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

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BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, Pint, and 3 Gallon sizes. Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. · reported 2017-01-18

Terminated This recall has been closed out by the agency.

Reason for recall: 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.
Classification: Class I
Recall initiated: 2016-09-20
Reported by the agency: 2017-01-18
Closed out (terminated): 2017-07-18
Recalling firm: Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
Brenham, TX
United States
This is the firm that issued the recall — commonly a distributor or processor. It is not the origin of contamination.
Distribution (the agency's own words): Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia
States we parsed from that text: AL FL GA KY LA MS NC SC TN VA
The agency named these states. Parse method explicit_state_list, confidence high.
Food category: Bakery Candy & chocolate Frozen desserts Snack foodsderived
Assigned by a reviewed keyword rulebook over the product description, not by the agency.
Recall type: Voluntary: Firm initiated
Recall number: F-0873-2017

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