Blue Bell Negotiates with Alabama DPH

    The Dallas News is updating the story of the ice cream maker's effort to climb out of a listeria contamination  hole.
     The newspaper reports Blue Bell has agreed to an inspection protocol at the Alabama plant that will include

• Ensuring that the company’s Pathogen Monitoring Program (PMP) for Listeria in the plant environment outlines how the company will respond to presumptive positive tests for Listeria species; and,
• Instituting a “test and hold” program to assure that products are safe before they are shipped or sold.