Full Tilt Ice Cream recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 February 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
Product
Ube ice cream, labeled in part, "***Full Tilt ice cream Ube***Ingredients: Cream, milk, sugar, skim milk powder, ube, corn syrup solids, carob bean gum, guar gum, soy lecithin, carrageenan, natural flavoring***Seattle WA 98106 www.fulltilticecream.com***". Ice cream is packaged in 16 oz paper containers, and 1.5 gallon and 3 gallon plastic tubs. UPC code: 736211045799 for 16 oz container only
Reason for recall
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
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Product codes
All products are coded with 7 digit code ending in 14x (ie: 0219142) produced before 12/19/2014.
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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. 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 17 of them.
The recall ran for 2 months, from 22 December 2014 to termination on 23 February 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 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 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.
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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)(3)
Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
21 CFR 117.150
Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
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.
Full Tilt Ice Cream is recalling pint size ice cream due to undeclared allergen, wheat. Flour is listed in the ingredient statement, however wheat is not declared.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
Full Tilt Brand ice cream is being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix, an ingredient manufactured and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream, Inc.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
