six weeks, and the army, which had a $4.8 million contract with blue bell, inspected four times a year. none of their inspections revealed violations that stopped production. gerald bland questions the inspection process. >> we never... the whole time i was there, had a surprise inspection. as soon as the army pulled up in the parking lot, the phone call starts. everyone knows right away, you get about a 15 or 20-minute window. >> reporter: the ice cream that sickened five people was made on this production line. blue bell shut it down in march, after confirming it was contaminated with listeria. but in other parts of the plant, production continued for weeks. >> nothing changed. the last two weeks, that's when they changed washup procedures, and they started retraining some of us. >> reporter: isn't that closing the barn door after the horse gets out? >> oh, i think all the animals