Dive Brief:
- Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams is once again making ice cream after recalling its products and shuttering its shops due to the discovery of a listeria contamination.
- The creamery will reopen most of its shops by this weekend, and its grocery store and online sales will resume over the summer.
- Jeni's traced the contamination to a spout used to fill ice cream pints in its kitchen in Columbus, OH.
Dive Insight:
Jeni's was the second creamery to report a listeria contamination in a week after Blue Bell recalled its own products. That recall has since expanded to include all of the company's products, and Blue Bell will now submit to state listeria testing for its Brenham, TX, and Broken Arrow, OK, plants, in addition to laying off over one-third of its workforce.
Despite recent recalls, Jennifer McEntire the vice president of science operations at the Grocery Manufacturers Association recently told Food Dive the food supply is safer than ever before.