Blue Bell has killed several people and it contains aspartame and other unhealthy ingredients.
DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation against Blue Bell
Just as Blue Bell is going to be introduced to the market again, the Justice department has finally launched a criminal investigation against them.
Yes, finally Blue Bell’s executives might feel the heat for the deaths caused by Listeria in their ice cream. The Justice Department is ready to find out what the executives might have known and, even more crucial, when they knew it.
Critics have asked why the DOJ has dragged their feet (not a surprise to several experts who say they are notoriously slow and inept) as the FDA and CDC have said there’s evidence Blue Bell kept shipping ice cream despite knowing there was listeria in the production lines for years prior to the outbreak back in March of last year. ( according to the FDA they’ve known since 2013 , and even as far back as 2010, according to the CDC).
In September, anonymous workers claimed a variety of extremely unhygienic practices — the worst definitely being an employee’s loss of “parts of one or more fingers” — were commonplace around the plants because they were operating “virtually 24/7” in order to keep up with heavy demand for their unhealthy and sometimes deadly ice cream.
There are few details DOJ’s inquiry, and the agency is being tight lipped. But the feds have actually stepped up to the plate and started to hold companies responsible when people die from eating their tainted food which is often their own fault. Like in the famous case of the peanut company where one of their execs (now doing 28 years in prison) wrote the famous words “shit, just ship it” before sending out peanut butter which left several victims dead, just as Blue Bell’s tainted ice cream did.
Here’s hoping some heads roll and a few executives (if responsible) get put away so companies wake up and stop killing their consumers.
Sources:
CBS.com
WSJ.com
