Bliss Bros. Dairy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream, 3-gallon round…
Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 June 2012 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contained recalled liquid peanut butter due to elevated aflatoxin levels
The record
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- Product
- Bliss Bros. Dairy Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Ice Cream, 3-gallon round paperboard,: frozen
- Reason for recall
- Product contained recalled liquid peanut butter due to elevated aflatoxin levels
- Recalling firm
- Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc.
- Firm location
- Attleboro, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1407-2012
- Quantity
- 152 3-gallon containers
- Distribution
- MA, NH, RI
- Initiated
- 9 April 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 20 June 2012
- Terminated
- 10 March 2016
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Julian date code 2059
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 3.9 years, from 9 April 2012 to termination on 10 March 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 3 states, and 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 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, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. 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
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts, milk and dairy, bakery, nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-06-20 | Newport Creamery Chocolate Peanut Butter Frozen Yogurt 3-gallon containers and 80 half gallon containers | Bliss Bros Dairy, Inc. | Product contained recalled liquid peanut butter due to elevated aflatoxin levels | Class III |
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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21 CFR 117.35(b) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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