Jeni’s Releases Statement on Listeria Reports, “The food we produce is absolutely 100% safe.”

After yesterday’s media coverage of Jeni’s third detection of Listeria, they have released a statement from their Quality Leader, the CEO, & Jeni herself.

“We received a Warning Letter from the FDA following their January inspection of our facility. We are happy to get to the next stage with the FDA, and we appreciate that the FDA went to the unusual step of noting in the letter the significant work and changes we made since we first learned of a Listeria issue back in April 2015. We have seen some initial news coverage of the letter, and thought it would help to put it in context.”

The letter continues to explain the far reach of Listeria, and that their program is designed to find Listeria.

“Listeria is so widespread in the natural world, it will inevitably find its way into otherwise clean environments. To control Listeria, the best food production companies are constantly searching for it through environmental swabbing and then eradicating it—before it has the chance to spread to any food contact surfaces.

We Are Aggressively Searching for Listeria; Our Program and Protocols Are Working.

In the last year we have performed more than 2,000 environmental swabs in our constant search to detect Listeria. In that year, Listeria has never been detected on a food contact surface, or in Zone 2 (the immediate area around food contact surfaces).”

The letter concludes stating that a “periodic detection of Listeria on non-food contact surfaces is not in any way abnormal in the industry.”

What do you think? Is three times in under two years too many times for Jeni’s? Does this affect your likelihood to eat Jeni’s?

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