Dark Cocoa Sorbetto packed in 14 oz. plastic jars, 8 packages per case, manufactured…
House Of Flavors, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 December 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared milk was found in 14 oz. Dark Cocoa Sorbetto gelato manufactured by House of Flavors, with aproduct code of: EB/JP, L3, 26-426, 14102, BEST BY October 12, 2015, BEST BY 10/15; following one reported consumer complaint of an allergic reaction to dairy.
The record
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- Product
- Dark Cocoa Sorbetto packed in 14 oz. plastic jars, 8 packages per case, manufactured from 4/11/14-4/12/14; product code: EB/JP, L3, 26-426, 14102, BEST BY October 12, 2015, BEST BY 10/15.
- Reason for recall
- Undeclared milk was found in 14 oz. Dark Cocoa Sorbetto gelato manufactured by House of Flavors, with aproduct code of: EB/JP, L3, 26-426, 14102, BEST BY October 12, 2015, BEST BY 10/15; following one reported consumer complaint of an allergic reaction to dairy.
- Recalling firm
- House Of Flavors, Inc.
- Firm location
- Ludington, Michigan, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0714-2015
- Quantity
- 2496 cases or 19,968 units (14 oz containers)
- Distribution
- Domestic: One Consignee- NY Seven Warehouses: MI; OR; NH; IN; WI; IA; PA Foreign: None
- Initiated
- 2 December 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 24 December 2014
- Terminated
- 30 April 2015
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- EB/JP, L3, 26-426, 14102, BEST BY October 12, 2015, BEST BY 10/15
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 2 December 2014 to termination on 30 April 2015. 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 5 states, and 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Oregon, New Hampshire, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa. 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
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: milk.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts and beverages and juice. 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 House Of Flavors, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 7 other records name this firm.
All 8 records for House Of Flavors, Inc.
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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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