Weis Quality Cookies and Cream Ice Cream (48oz). Packaged in a squround paper container…
Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 February 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Ice Cream product may contain metal (foreign objects).
The record
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- Product
- Weis Quality Cookies and Cream Ice Cream (48oz). Packaged in a squround paper container with a UPC of 041497-01253.
- Reason for recall
- Ice Cream product may contain metal (foreign objects).
- Recalling firm
- Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division
- Firm location
- Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0218-2021
- Quantity
- 10,869 containers
- Distribution
- Distributed to warehouse in PA and retail locations in DE, MD, NJ, NY, VA, WV, and PA
- Initiated
- 5 January 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 3 February 2021
- Terminated
- 15 February 2022
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Sell by date 10/28/21
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class 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 is one of 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 13 months, from 5 January 2021 to termination on 15 February 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 distribution pattern names 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy and bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-02-03 | Klein s Cookies and Cream Bulk Packaged in a 3 gallon paper drum. | Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division | Ice Cream product may contain metal (foreign objects). | Class II |
| 2021-02-03 | Klein s Vanilla Ice Cream. Packaged in a 3 gallon paper drum. | Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division | Ice Cream product may contain metal (foreign objects). | Class II |
| 2021-02-03 | Nelsons Graham Slam Bulk. Packaged in a 3 gallon paper drum. | Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division | Ice Cream product may contain metal (foreign objects). | Class II |
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
All 2021 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.40 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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