Blue Bell Recalls All Products: 10 Listeria Illnesses Linked to TX Ice Cream Company

Blue Bell Creameries voluntarily recalled of its products on Monday among 23 states and international locations after two samples of its chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream were found to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes virus.

According to Fortune, the recalls will include products like ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet, and frozen snacks from the shelves.

CEO Paul Kruse in a statement said that the move is done to assure the standards and quality of their product

"We're committed to doing the 100% right thing, and the best way to do that is to take all of our products off the market until we can be confident that they are all safe," he said.

The move is said to have been released when health officials started to pinpoint Blue Bell Creameries as the product that has caused the death of three people in Texas and the ill condition of five others from Listeria virus in Kansas, CNN said.

Despite the positive tests, the company cannot determine 'with certainty' how the virus was introduced in their facilities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a statement saying that four of the infected patients drank milkshakes made with Blue Bell ice cream at a hospital. However, they cannot determine whether the fifth patient at Kansas hospital also consume the same product.

From 2011-2014, three patients from Texas also have the virus.

Said to be its first recall in its 108 years of history, Blue Bell Creameries recall extends to retail outlets in in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming and international locations, MSN said.