Awww, this is so sad. These poor people are getting dogged out and it's not even their fault. Do you remember when I told that Blue Bell Ice Cream Company had listeria contamination? Well, things have not gotten better and the production plants have not been cleaned up and reopened. So now, Blue Bell is firing and furloughing production and distribution staff. Blue Bell has signed an agreement with US Government about reporting every single positive listeria test they have in the future and some other stuff. However, Blue Bell still has not discovered how the contamination occurred, was it on purpose, or by accident, etc. And they have not completed clean up yet. What's taking them so long, people need their jobs. They need to be able to feed their families and pay their bills etc etc.
Blue Bell CEO and President Paul Kruse called the decision to layoff and furlough workers "agonizing." Yeah, I am sure it was Paul. Bullshit! What Paul needs to do is hire an independent team to investigate and find how the contamination occurred, then he needs to hire an industrial cleanup team to clean all of Blue Bell's production plants. It's gonna cost Blue Bell some money to do this but it HAS to be done! The only way to insure that the contamination wont happen again is to find out how it happened this time and change your safety protocols. Or if someone did this on purpose, fire them and hire new staff and vett them fully. The contamination goes back to 2013 and at that time Blue Bell failed to inform the government about the positive test results. 3 people from Kansas have died from this outbreak, and 8 others have gotten sick. Blue Bell needs to stop dragging its feet and solve the problems! They are not insurmountable!!! My prayers go out to the workers who are losing their jobs. So sad.
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