Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream, 3 gallons

Working Cow Homemade Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 November 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Cherry Vanilla Ice Cream, 3 gallons

Reason for recall

Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Working Cow Homemade Inc.

Firm location

Saint Petersburg, Florida, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0504-2019

Quantity

683 tubs

Distribution

US Consignees only. No foreign nor government consignees.

Initiated

28 September 2018

Reported by FDA

21 November 2018

Terminated

26 April 2019

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

"8/29/2017 - 10/11/2018"

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 172 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 172 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 172. 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 172 of them.
• The recall ran for 7 months, from 28 September 2018 to termination on 26 April 2019. 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 8 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

Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts and milk and dairy. 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 Working Cow Homemade Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 174 other records name this firm.

All 175 records for Working Cow Homemade Inc.

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