BLUE BELL OUTBREAK TIMELINE

Events

First case of outbreck in Texas (not reported).

1 March 2011

Second case of outbreak same Texas hospital.

1 May 2011

Second case reported in Kansas.

1 January 2014

First case in Kansans.

1 March 2014

Three cases reported (two Kansas, one Texas).

1 October 2014

Fifth case reported in Kansas.

1 January 2015

At this point the total people affected fron Listeriosis are eight over 4 years-time. Three of them died. The health officiers are still unweare of the common cause.

The South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control finds Listeria in two Blue Bell products.

12 February 2015

The Health officials related the two Kansas cases of Listeriosis to Blue Bell products.

1 March 2015

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announces an outbreak of Listeriosis linked to Blue Bell ice cream

13 March 2015

FIRST BLUE BELL RECALL on 10 products

13 March 2015

FDA informes Blue Bell Listeria has been found in ice cream cups.

22 March 2015

SECOND BLUE BELL RECALL

23 March 2015

Blue Bell expands the recall to the ice-cream cups.

Blue Bell suspended operations at its Broken Arrow plant.

3 April 2015

CDC expanded the outbreak case.

7 April 2015

Incuding five Kansas cases of Listeriosis (with three deaths), three cases in Texas, one in Arizona and one in Oklahoma.

THIRD BLUE BELL RECALL: all products from all facilities were taken back form the market.

20 April 2015

Blue Bell signed agreements (Enforcement Agreement) with health officials in Oklahoma and Texas.

14 May 2015

The Agreement forced Blue Bell to inform the states whenever there a positive test result for Listeria would be found.