Weis Quality Premium Ice Cream Sea Salt Caramel Ripple 1.5 Quart (1.42 L) UPC 041497-01288
Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 December 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared soy and coconut
The record
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- Product
- Weis Quality Premium Ice Cream Sea Salt Caramel Ripple 1.5 Quart (1.42 L) UPC 041497-01288
- UPC
- 04149701288
- Reason for recall
- Undeclared soy and coconut
- Recalling firm
- Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division
- Firm location
- Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0190-2023
- Quantity
- 108 containers
- Distribution
- Distributed to retail stores in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and West Virginia.
- Initiated
- 23 November 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 14 December 2022
- Terminated
- 10 July 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Sell by date: 11/08/23
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 8 months, from 23 November 2022 to termination on 10 July 2023. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of ice cream or frozen dessert run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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: soy.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy, snacks and confectionery and spices and seasonings. 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 Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 40 other records name this firm.
All 41 records for Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division
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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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