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The company halted production in April 2015 after 10 people in four states were hospitalized after eating listeria-tainted ice cream. Three deaths were reported in Kansas, and the Centers for Disease Control warned against consuming any Blue Bell products. The company subsequently recalled 8 million gallons of ice cream.
Blue Bell Creameries. For much of its early history, the company manufactured both ice cream and butter locally. In the mid-20th century, it abandoned butter production and expanded to the entire state of Texas and soon much of the Southern United States. The company’s corporate headquarters are located at the “Little Creamery” in Brenham, Texas.
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Although the company at one time made Cookies ‘n Cream from Nabisco’s Oreo cookies, buying ordinary retail packages, today it bakes its own cookies. As of 1997, Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla was the best-selling single flavor of ice cream in the United States, and in 2001, Forbes named Blue Bell the best ice cream in the country.
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