Case Study Of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream

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People are sick, and it is because of listeria. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream is doing all they can do to help fight the listeria outbreak before it is blown up, more than it already is. Jeni’s Ice Cream is safe to eat because they have no deaths from their produce. The news and consumers have blown this outbreak up way more than it needed to be because they didn’t realize that Jeni didn’t have contaminated produce that they could consume. Jeni’s Ice Cream should be doing as well as it used to because they had a problem, they recognized the problem, then they resolved the problem.
Listeria is a type of bacterium that infects humans and other warm blooded animals through contaminated food. (Dictionary.com, 2016) In other words, it is food poisoning …show more content…

Jeni and her production workers are testing every batch of product that is created. Jeni tests the batches of product every single day. “Lowe wrote that the company had initiated routine testing of “every batch” since the first Listeria contamination was discovered last April. “It is with complete confidence that we can say all of the ice cream that has been served in our shops since reopening on May 22 has been safe and is 100% Listeria-free,”” Jeni’s manager John Lowe told the public about their company for an article on time.com. (time.com, 2015) Jeni also has professional inspectors come in to check her products as well to see if they get a different result. Only two out of 75 testing swabs came back positive for listeria before they decided to close and sterilize everything. “After two out of 75 swabs taken in January and February came back positive, according to a letter the FDA sent to Jeni 's CEO John Lowe earlier this month.” (Columbus Dispatch, 2016) The two swabs came from the production plants floor, which means that none of the product should have touched it. Listeria is known for growing and spreading rapidly, so Jeni is doing all she can to not let her products get contaminated with listeria. ““It can come through milk and other dairy products. Other organisms cannot survive at such low temperatures, but listeria can survive and sometimes even grow,” Bhunia told Fusion. “The only thing is to make sure the milk has been properly pasteurized.” Pasteurization, for those of you who don’t know, is basically when milk is passed through a high heat treatment (about 161°F or 280°F for “ultra-pasteurized”) for a short period of time (between 15 seconds and .5 seconds) to kill off bacteria. But even if the milk product is pasteurized, Bhunia said, listeria can develop in food processing plants, and there are countless potential sources of the bacteria: the floor, the air

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