Class ITerminated · reported 2012-11-14

Belfonte Mama's Choice Premium Ice Cream, Reverse Peanut Butter Pie, Peanut Butter…

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 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
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-0652-2013
Quantity: 15,252/56-oz paper cartons
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 83057-17033 Best Used By Date: 07/15/2011; 10/02/2011; 12/02/2011; 02/09/2012; 04/06/2012; 06/02/2012

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. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
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, bakery, nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.

The other 1 records of FDA event 63411
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2012-11-14	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	Belfonte Ice Cream & Dairy Foods Co	Products may contain peanut butter base with potentially contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I

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.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2025-12-10	Dry Roasted Baking Macadamia Nuts, Unsalted Halves Ideal for Baking, Cooking, Salads or Ice Cream; NET WT 20 OZ (1 LB 4 OZ) 567g UPC: 8 60011 44301 8	American Nuts, LLC	Potential Salmonella contamination.	Class I
2024-04-24	Helados Mexico Premium Ice Cream Minis Variety Pack 12 bars Strawberry, Coconut, Mango 1.5 FL OZ (44mL) Bards Net 18 FL OZ (528mL)	Tropicale Foods, Inc.	Salmonella contamination	Class I
2022-06-15	Taharka Brothers Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream 16 oz Pint Container: Paper cup with peanut butter cups along the bottom with a white background. Barcode: 38455-78827 2.5 Gallon: Brown and rectangular cardboard container with a white sticker label	TAHARKA BROTHER'S ICE CREAM	May be contaminated with Salmonella	Class I
2017-05-10	Hand Crafted, LG Paleteria, La Granja, Mango Flavored Ice cream, Wt. 4 oz., in clear flexible plastic wrap.	La Granja Inc	Possible Salmonella Enteritidis contamination.	Class I
2013-05-29	Goldenbrook Farms Peanut Butter Bash Ice Cream, 1/2 gallon carton with UPC code 0009282530538	Brookshire Grocery Company Manufacturing	The product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The peanut butter used in the manufacturing of the ice cream was supplied by Sunland, Inc.	Class I
2013-03-20	Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Gelato. The product was distributed to retail stores throughout the United States between September 2011 and September 2012 and is packaged in clear, plastic One Pint (473ml) containers with UPC code 1 86852 00094 5 printed on the back of the container and "Best By" date range of 3/21/13 through 3/26/14 printed on the bottom of the container. The firm also sold the product in a 5 QT size with UPC code 1-8685200090-7 and best by range 03/21/13 through 03/26/2014.	Talenti I, LLC	Talenti Gelato is recalling Talenti Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup Gelato. The peanut butter used in this product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Consumption of food contaminated with Salmonella can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often expe	Class I
2012-12-12	Yoki Bliss Peanut Butter frozen yogurt, 1 gallon, packaged in plastic containers, manufactured by Fresca Foods, CO.	Boulder Ice Cream	Products manufactured using peanut ingredients recall by Sunland due to potential Salmonella contamination.	Class I
2012-12-12	Elvis Ice Cream, 2.5 gallon, packed in a plastic container, manufactured by Fresca Foods, CO.	Boulder Ice Cream	Products manufactured using peanut ingredients recall by Sunland due to potential Salmonella contamination.	Class I

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 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	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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