Vanilla Butter Luv ice cream; Gallon and pint containers. Product is labeled in part…

Numbskull LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 February 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The recalling firm was notified that raw materials used in producing the ice cream products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes

The record

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Product

Vanilla Butter Luv ice cream; Gallon and pint containers. Product is labeled in part, "***brain freeze creamery***Manufactured by Brain Freeze Creamery, Spokane, WA www.brainfreezecreamery.com***"

Reason for recall

The recalling firm was notified that raw materials used in producing the ice cream products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes

Recalling firm

Numbskull LLC

Firm location

Spokane Valley, Washington, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1147-2015

Quantity

Approx 1.5 gallons; 36 pints

Distribution

Washington and Idaho ice cream scoop shops and restaurants.

Initiated

23 December 2014

Reported by FDA

18 February 2015

Terminated

23 February 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

All codes manufactured from January 1, 2014 - December 15, 2014. ("MMDD" and "XXXX"-Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream Code)

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 115 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 115 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 115. All 115 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 2 months, from 23 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts and milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 115 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 114 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.

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 Numbskull LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 114 other records name this firm.

All 115 records for Numbskull LLC

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