Product recalls - Page 1

What dairy processors should do if a recall happens

Roger Hancock

November 11, 2025

Dairy processors must be prepared to manage a recall, even if it seems unlikely to happen.

The right finish for a food contact surface: Are we protecting consumers?

How is technology and data impacting food safety and limiting recalls.

Jason Tucker

August 22, 2025

With advancements in technology, traditional practices regarding surface finishes warrant reevaluation rather than blind adherence.

Food manufacturing safer amid key processing equipment advancements

Auto-Pulse Bag Dump Station innovations boost food processing safety, cleanliness and efficiency.

June 13, 2024

Amid the numerous product recalls and reports warning consumers about breaches in safety, efficiency and cleanliness in food processing environments, manufacturers must be more proactive than ever to implement safer and more efficient processing solutions, according to ABM Equipment Co.

Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling select products produced in its Sylacauga, Alabama, plant

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Recall woes continue to plague Blue Bell ice cream

Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling select products produced in its Alabama plant made with a chocolate chip cookie dough ingredient.

September 22, 2016

Blue Bell Ice Cream is voluntarily recalling select products produced in its Sylacauga, Alabama, plant because they were made with a chocolate chip cookie dough ingredient supplied by a third party supplier Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for it to contain Listeria monocytogenes.

7 philosophical approaches to handling product recalls

Dairy processors cannot hide their heads in the sand when it comes to food safety. Learn from the mistakes of other food manufacturers so that you can avoid a product recall.

Allen Sayler

April 12, 2016

It is easy to include “avoid a recall of a dairy product “in your company vision statement or plant’s goals. It is relatively easy to write a recall program that you hope will never be used.

Snoqualmie Ice Cream: How we survived a recall

A Washington state ice cream company destroyed over 300,000 pounds of ice cream. Losses were well over $1 million. The CEO calls the recall ‘devastating, stressful yet incredibly meaningful.’

Barry Bettinger

April 12, 2016

On Dec. 23, 2014, we issued a voluntary recall for all of our products, including pints, single-serve cups, wholesale tubs and mix.

House of Flavors Purple Cow recalled ice cream in January 2016

Ah, nuts!

Nuts, wood pieces trigger recall from 2 ice cream processors

There might be wood pieces in H-E-B’s turtle ice cream. Pecans are found in Purple Cow’s cookie butter flavor made by House of Flavors. The lid doesn't match the cup.

February 5, 2016

H-E-B and House of Flavors issue product recalls of certain ice cream packages.

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Borden recalls half-pint cartons of chocolate milk shipped to Texas schools

A diluted food grade sanitizing agent may be present in a limited amount of the product run.

December 7, 2015

Borden Dairy Co. of Texas, issued a voluntary recall of certain half-pints of chocolate milk delivered to school districts, institutions and some retailers in central and south Texas.

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