date:May 27, 2015
Months after an outbreak of deadly bacteria in ice cream that killed three and sickened seven more, U.S. regulators are near making food producers like Blue Bell Creameries Inc. have safety plans to minimize future outbreaks.
There hasnt been a federal requirement that all food producers have a written-down plan. Blue Bell, the Texas-based ice cream maker, shut down most of its manufacturing and fired or furloughed most workers after the outbreak.
Two years after it was proposed, the Food and D