Turkey Hill Pumpkin Pie Premium Ice Cream 48 oz. packaged in a paper tub and lid…

Turkey Hill Dairy, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 December 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Turkey Hill Dairy is initiating a voluntary recall on Turkey Hill Ice Cream because the product may be potentially contaminated with metal debris.

The record

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Product

Turkey Hill Pumpkin Pie Premium Ice Cream 48 oz. packaged in a paper tub and lid, distributed by Turkey Hill Dairy, Conestoga, PA.

Reason for recall

Turkey Hill Dairy is initiating a voluntary recall on Turkey Hill Ice Cream because the product may be potentially contaminated with metal debris.

Recalling firm

Turkey Hill Dairy, Inc.

Firm location

Conestoga, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1103-2014

Quantity

756 tubs

Distribution

MA, MD, PA

Initiated

4 October 2013

Reported by FDA

25 December 2013

Terminated

25 August 2015

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Sell By Date: 10/02/2014

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
• The recall ran for 23 months, from 4 October 2013 to termination on 25 August 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months 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: Massachusetts, Maryland, Pennsylvania. 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

Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy, meat and poultry and bakery. 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 Turkey Hill Dairy, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 4 records for Turkey Hill Dairy, Inc.

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