Tincup
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We talk about ice cream sometimes, joking around, and just heard this info about the fact listeria has been linked to the Blue Bell brand of ice cream.
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Catgirl
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Bummer. I used to love that ice cream.
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The deaths occurred at hospitals that served specific products. The pints and half-gallons are OK... most of their products are OK.
If you want to know which ones are listed .. see the link above.
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BRENHAM, Texas -- "The Food and Drug Administration has issued an advisory after five cases of listeriosis were linked to Blue Bell ice cream from the production facility in Brenham.
All five patients ate the ice cream while being treated at a hospital in Kansas between January 2014 and January 2015. Three of them died.
No one suspected the infection came from ice cream until four strains of listeria monocytogenes were found in Blue Bell products last month by the South Carolina Health Department.
The Texas Department of Health was notified and they collected product samples from the Brenham facility that turned up listeria monocytogenes.
USA TODAY
Listeria outbreak from caramel apples has killed four
The FDA notified health departments in other states.
The Kansas Department of Health did some investigating and learned that records for four of the five listeriosis patients show they were served Blue Bell ice cream products at the hospital.
Blue Bell Creameries reports that it has removed the affected ice cream products from the market and has shut down the production line where the products were made."
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Tincup
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Glad you saw this TuTu- you were the first to come to mind when I saw this!
I've been sick with listeria from Hummas I bought at a grocery store- the recall went into affect after I purchased it and after I headed to the mountains to camp (by myself)- so I didn't know.
Ended up at the ER- over 45 minutes away after a few days of being really sick. They wanted to admit me, but they had no treatment or cure so I said see you later! Went to chiropractor and he said to drink some sort of juice- can't remember what it was- anyhow, there was none to be found in the surrounding counties, so I just hung in there.
My point is I am not comfortable saying "eat around" the brands/varieties from Blue Bell that they know are contaminated. I personally wouldn't chance it.
But then I won't eat ANY Hummas from anywhere even though I know it would not be likely that I'd get sick a second time, especially this many years later.
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