--- title: Blue Bell Recalls Ice Cream Over Listeria Concerns description: Blue Bell recalled packages of ice cream that contained chocolate chip cookie dough over concerns of potential listeria contamination canonical: https://time.com/4503694/blue-bell-ice-cream-recall-listeria/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-09-22T00:12:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T00:45:06.466Z article:section: Health og:title: Blue Bell Recalls Ice Cream Over Listeria Concerns og:description: The cookie dough ice cream may be contaminated og:url: https://time.com/4503694/blue-bell-ice-cream-recall-listeria/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04b11eccc1a9ede7/6988a71b524fc0080fdf992e/blue-bell-listeria-cookie-dough.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: Blue Bell Creameries Recalls All Products After Listeria Contamination og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Blue Bell Recalls Ice Cream Over Listeria Concerns twitter:description: The cookie dough ice cream may be contaminated twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04b11eccc1a9ede7/6988a71b524fc0080fdf992e/blue-bell-listeria-cookie-dough.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Blue Bell Recalls Ice Cream Over Listeria Concerns > Sponsored content. 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OVERLAND PARK, KS - APRIL 21: Blue Bell Ice Cream is seen on shelves of an Overland Park grocery store prior to being removed on April 21, 2015 in Overland Park, Kansas. Blue Bell Creameries recalled all products following a Listeria contamination. Jamie Squire—Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Sep 22, 2016 12:12 AM UTC Blue Bell [recalled packages of ice cream](http://cdn.bluebell.com/the%5Flittle%5Fcreamery/press%5Freleases/bb-am-kol) that contained chocolate chip cookie dough over concerns of potential listeria contamination. The select products recalled include Blue Bell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough and Blue Bell Cookie Two Step, which were produced at an Alabama plant, the [company announced](http://cdn.bluebell.com/the%5Flittle%5Fcreamery/press%5Freleases/bb-am-kol) on Wednesday. The cookie dough ingredient in the ice cream potentially contains listeria, according to Blue Bell. Aspen Hills, Inc., a third party supplier, provided the cookie dough ingredient, Blue Bell said. Aspen Hills has since issued a voluntary recall of the products it supplied to Blue Bell. “Blue Bell is initiating this recall out of an abundance of caution,” the company [said](http://cdn.bluebell.com/the%5Flittle%5Fcreamery/press%5Freleases/bb-am-kol) in a release. No illnesses have yet been reported. [Blue Bell voluntarily suspended operations](http://time.com/3771403/blue-bell-ice-cream-factory-shut-down/) at an Oklahoma production facility in 2015 after three people died in Kansas from eating ice cream products contaminated with listeria. The company issued a [widespread recall](http://time.com/3804910/blue-bell-recall-expands/) for all its products. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4503694/blue-bell-ice-cream-recall-listeria/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4503694/blue-bell-ice-cream-recall-listeria/"},"headline":"Blue Bell Recalls Ice Cream Over Listeria Concerns","datePublished":"2016-09-22T00:12:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T00:45:06.466Z","description":"The cookie dough ice cream may be contaminated","url":"https://time.com/4503694/blue-bell-ice-cream-recall-listeria/","keywords":["Food"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04b11eccc1a9ede7/6988a71b524fc0080fdf992e/blue-bell-listeria-cookie-dough.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04b11eccc1a9ede7/6988a71b524fc0080fdf992e/blue-bell-listeria-cookie-dough.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Blue Bell Creameries Recalls All Products After Listeria Contamination","caption":"Blue Bell Creameries Recalls All Products After Listeria Contamination","creditText":"Jamie Squire—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4503694/blue-bell-ice-cream-recall-listeria/","name":"Blue Bell Recalls Ice Cream Over Listeria Concerns"}}]}] ```