Van Leeuwen brand BROWN SUGAR CHUNK WITH COOKIE DOUGH & BROWNIES FENCH ICE CREAM; 14 FL…
Van Leeuwen Ice Cream LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 June 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may contain undeclared walnuts.
The record
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- Product
- Van Leeuwen brand BROWN SUGAR CHUNK WITH COOKIE DOUGH & BROWNIES FENCH ICE CREAM; 14 FL OZ (414 ML); ingredients: cream, milk, dark brown sugar, cane sugar, egg yolks, wheat flour, unbleached flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour), water, cocoa processed with alkali, canola oil, coconut oil, invert sugar, eggs, egg whites, molasses, tapioca flour, vanilla extract, sea salt, salt, sunflower lecithin, soy lecithin, baking powder (sodium acid pyrophosphate, baking soda, corn starch, monocalcium phosphate); contains: milk, eggs, wheat, soy, tree nuts (coconut); MANUFACTURED IN A FACILITY THAT HANDLES DAIRY, EGGS, TREE NUTS, PEANUTS, WHEAT AND SOY
- Reason for recall
- Product may contain undeclared walnuts.
- Recalling firm
- Van Leeuwen Ice Cream LLC
- Firm location
- Brooklyn, New York, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0985-2023
- Quantity
- 4,096 pints
- Distribution
- MD, NJ, OH, NH, CT, NJ, PA, NY, ME, VA, DC
- Initiated
- 22 May 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 21 June 2023
- Terminated
- 29 September 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot Number: 23P102 Best By Date: April 12, 2025
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 4 months, from 22 May 2023 to termination on 29 September 2023. 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 10 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 shorter 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, Ohio, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Maine, Virginia, District of Columbia. 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: tree nuts.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy, bakery, nuts and seeds, dietary supplements, spices and seasonings, grains, flour and pasta, beverages and juice and eggs. 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 Van Leeuwen Ice Cream LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
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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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