Emack & Bolios Stoney's Dream Ice Cream, 3gal Product Code: 36276

Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 May 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product failed to meet air space specifications

The record

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Product

Emack & Bolios Stoney's Dream Ice Cream, 3gal Product Code: 36276

Reason for recall

Product failed to meet air space specifications

Recalling firm

Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc.

Firm location

Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1277-2016

Quantity

50 units

Distribution

MA, ME, NH, NY, NJ, CT, RI Foreign: Thailand, China

Initiated

17 March 2016

Reported by FDA

4 May 2016

Terminated

6 June 2016

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Date Code: 6026

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 22 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 22 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 22. 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 22 of them.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 17 March 2016 to termination on 6 June 2016. 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 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

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

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 23 other records name this firm.

All 24 records for Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc.

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