Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Cookie PB Swirl Non-Diary Frozen Dessert 16 oz.

Target Corporation recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 May 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Shipping container from CA to HI was not held at proper temperature which could cause food items to be contaminated with spoilage organisms or pathogens

The record

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Product

Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Cookie PB Swirl Non-Diary Frozen Dessert 16 oz. UPC: 76840580767 Target item number: 288-7-814

UPC

76840580767

Reason for recall

Shipping container from CA to HI was not held at proper temperature which could cause food items to be contaminated with spoilage organisms or pathogens

Recalling firm

Target Corporation

Firm location

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1211-2018

Quantity

2652 retail units total

Distribution

HI

Initiated

27 March 2018

Reported by FDA

9 May 2018

Terminated

3 May 2018

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

All product purchased at Target store T2780, Honolulu, HI from March 23 through March 27, 2018.

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 199 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 199 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 199. All 199 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 5 weeks, from 27 March 2018 to termination on 3 May 2018. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 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, bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 199 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 198 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 Target Corporation

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 201 other records name this firm.

All 202 records for Target Corporation

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