Former Blue Bell CEO Defends Safety Practices: Delaware Brief

Ex-Blue Bell CEO Defends Safety Practices

Paul Kruse (second to the right) in 2009.

Photographer: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images

Blue Bell Creameries’ former CEO testified that the company’s leaders regularly reviewed food safety and sanitation inspection reports from its ice cream plants in a first-of-its-kind trial expected to test the limits of corporate oversight liability in Delaware, Jennifer Kay reports.

Paul Kruse, who took over the Texas-based company from his father in 2004, described semiweekly staff and production meetings, and monthly board meetings that produced detailed minutes and were supplemented by an “open door” policy where managers were free to walk into his office to discuss concerns.

But his lack of specificity about ...