There are three known deaths affiliated with Blue Bell ice cream. Infractions in standards are caught, recorded and demands made, but, the actions have to include fines immediately unless the problems are corrected immediately.
...‘Recurring problems’
The Tulsa World (click here) submitted an open records request to the Oklahoma
Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, for all documents related
to inspections of the Broken Arrow facility dating back to 2010.
Among
items noted at the Broken Arrow plant were recurring correspondence to
the facility’s management that unnecessary equipment was being stored in
the plant’s mix processing area.
The
issue was among the items noted in a March 18, 2014, letter from the
Oklahoma department’s environmental programs specialist to the Blue Bell
plant’s quality control manager.
The issue was referred to as a “recurring problem” that the department requested Blue Bell’s cooperation in correcting.
The
documents also included a March 27, 2012, inspection report that noted
an individual at a half-gallon filler with bare arms covered in
chocolate.
Stromberg
said that when correspondence is sent to companies outlining the
department’s observations that need to be corrected, the facility is
expected to correct the issues and the department will follow up on the
results....
