Blue Bell Executive Grilled on US Army’s Sanitation Concerns (1)

A Delaware judge appears focused on sanitation complaints by the US Army in Blue Bell Creameries Inc. plants before a fatal 2015 listeria outbreak in its ice cream products.

Blue Bell is the first company to face trial in the Delaware Chancery Court for claims its senior leaders failed to adequately monitor its operations or ignored “red flags,” leading to a corporate trauma.

Vice Chancellor Nathan A. Cook is pushing Blue Bell’s senior leaders to explain what they knew about the potential risk of a dangerous pathogen growing in their plants, when they knew that risk, and what they did ...