Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream Case Study

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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 becomes more blown up than it already is. There has been skeptulations in the media about if Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream is safe to eat or if the consumer will get Listeria. 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 a considerable amount more than it needed to be because they didn’t realize that Jeni’s didn’t have contaminated produce that they could consume. Jeni’s Ice Cream should be doing just as well as it used to because they had a problem, they recognized the problem, then they resolved the problem but people …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. In an article on Time.com, by Dan Kedmey, (2015) he talks about one of the owners of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream, John Lowe, talking about testing all of the product, “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, para. 3) Jeni also has professional inspectors come in to check her products as well to see if they get a different result. According to JD Malone (2016) the results of the tests were clear, “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, para. 7) 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. Isha Aran (2015) gives more insight about how to prevent Listeria and …show more content…

Jeni’s Ice Cream was closed twice, the first time for two months and the second time for two weeks. One reasons why Jeni decided it was long enough to open up their business is because they have recently tested every batch of their product daily. Another reason to believe they were closed long enough is because there was no product contaminated in the production plant, only the production floor had traces of Listeria. Another reason Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream opened when they did was because nobody has died from eating their ice cream so it was not as big of a problem as people have made it out to be. Other people may question if they are doing all the testing they can do to try and combat this Listeria. Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream tests every batch of product they serve daily. Daily testing means there is less of a chance to encounter increased numbers of Listeria. Out of all of the testing swabs only two out of seventy five swabs came back positive, but that was only from the production floor. None of the product testing has come back positive, which means none of the food has been contaminated with

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