Chocolate Ice Cream, 1 quart, UPC:87525200107. Packaged in paper quart container.
Homestead Creamery, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 October 2020 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product mis-packaging; causing undeclared pecans.
The record
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- Product
- Chocolate Ice Cream, 1 quart, UPC:87525200107. Packaged in paper quart container.
- UPC
- 87525200107
- Reason for recall
- Product mis-packaging; causing undeclared pecans.
- Recalling firm
- Homestead Creamery, Inc.
- Firm location
- Wirtz, Virginia, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0112-2021
- Quantity
- 203 quart containers
- Distribution
- Distributed to retailers and distributors in Virginia and North Carolina
- Initiated
- 17 September 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 28 October 2020
- Terminated
- 11 January 2022
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- BEST BY 5/13/21
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This is one of 2 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 16 months, from 17 September 2020 to termination on 11 January 2022. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of ice cream or frozen dessert run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Ice cream and frozen desserts are ready to eat and never cooked again, and freezing preserves Listeria rather than killing it, which is why a positive environmental sample in a frozen dessert plant becomes a recall rather than a corrective action.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
The allergens named in this record: tree nuts.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other ice cream and frozen desserts recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Homestead Creamery, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-09 | Lemonade 1/2 gallon glass bottle. UPC:7525200265. "10% Real Juice Lemonade" | Homestead Creamery, Inc. | Possible contamination with chlorine sanitizer | Class II |
| 2020-10-28 | All Natural Chocolate Pecan ice cream, 2.5 gallons, UPC:7525200120. Packaged in a plastic container | Homestead Creamery, Inc. | Undeclared Pecans | Class II |
| 2020-05-06 | Homestead Creamery Unsalted Butter. 0.45 lb. net weight. 1 unit per package, cellophane wrap | Homestead Creamery, Inc. | Unsalted butter has potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
All 4 records for Homestead Creamery, Inc.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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