Cardamom Ice Cream. Product can be packaged in 2.5 gallon or 1.5 gallon plastic tubs or…

Elevated Ice Cream Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 March 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Elevated brand ice cream products are being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix produced and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream

The record

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Product

Cardamom Ice Cream. Product can be packaged in 2.5 gallon or 1.5 gallon plastic tubs or cardboard quart container. Firm is unable to determine how batches were packaged.

Reason for recall

Elevated brand ice cream products are being recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. These products contain ice cream mix produced and recalled by Snoqualmie Gourmet Ice Cream

Recalling firm

Elevated Ice Cream Company

Firm location

Port Townsend, Washington, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1235-2015

Quantity

42 batches

Distribution

All product was distributed in the local Port Townsend, Washington area.

Initiated

23 December 2014

Reported by FDA

4 March 2015

Terminated

23 February 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Some containers may have a production date hand written on a white label. Some quart containers are stamped on the bottom with the julian date.

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 69 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 69 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 69. 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 69 of them.
• 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 2 months 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.

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 Elevated Ice Cream Company

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 68 other records name this firm.

All 69 records for Elevated Ice Cream Company

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