Belfonte Home Run Sundae Ice Cream, A Baseball Nut Blend of Chocolate Peanuts, Chocolate…
Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 November 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products may contain peanut butter base with potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
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- Product
- Belfonte Home Run Sundae Ice Cream, A Baseball Nut Blend of Chocolate Peanuts, Chocolate Coated Pretzels, and a Thick Fudge Swirl in Peanut Butter/Chocolate Ice Cream, 56 oz. (1.66L) Belonite Ice Cream Company, Kansas City, MO
- Reason for recall
- Products may contain peanut butter base with potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
- Recalling firm
- Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co
- Firm location
- Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0651-2013
- Quantity
- 20,304/56oz-paper carton
- Distribution
- The products were distributed in MO, KS, OK, AR
- Initiated
- 9 October 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 14 November 2012
- Terminated
- 2 December 2013
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- UPC 83057-91023 Best Used By Date: 04/08/2011; 05/07/2011; 06/03/2011; 06/08/2012; 03/13/2014; 04/26/2014; 06/21/2014; 07/27/2014
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 14 months, from 9 October 2012 to termination on 2 December 2013. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 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: Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas. 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
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy, nuts and seeds 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 Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-10-05 | 1.5 quarts (1.41 L) Chocolate to Die For Premium Ice Cream UPC: 83057 17049 Plant Code 29-050 | Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co | The product may contain undeclared peanuts. | Class I |
| 2019-08-21 | FROZEN VAN YOG, in 3 gallon cardboard buckets | Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co | Undeclared allergens peanuts: Peanut butter ice cream was placed in containers labeled to be frozen vanilla yogurt | Class II |
| 2012-11-14 | Belfonte Mama's Choice Premium Ice Cream, Reverse Peanut Butter Pie, Peanut Butter Coated Fudge Filled Cups, Peanut Butter Flakes and Swirled Chocolate Cookie Pie Crust Ribbon in Peanut Butter Ice Cream, 56 oz. (1.66L) Belonite Ice Cream Company, Kansas City, MO | Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co | Products may contain peanut butter base with potentially contaminated with Salmonella. | Class I |
All 4 records for Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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