Chipwich Vanilla Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich 4 fl oz sold as 3-pack, 10-pack, and…

Totally Cool, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 August 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes

The record

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Product

Chipwich Vanilla Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Sandwich 4 fl oz sold as 3-pack, 10-pack, and 24 (single serve) pack. Sandwiches individually wrapped in plastic. Product packaged in cardboard boxes. UPCs 810493034013, 810493035010, and 810493030022. 12 boxes/8 boxes/24 boxes per case.

Reason for recall

Possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes

Recalling firm

Totally Cool, Inc.

Firm location

Owings Mills, Maryland, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1569-2024

Quantity

113315 cases

Distribution

Distributed nationwide.

Initiated

13 June 2024

Reported by FDA

7 August 2024

Terminated

8 October 2024

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

All best by dates 02/23/25 to 12/21/25 Club pack (10 units): Lot# 23298-24172 24 pack (Single Serve): Lot# 23298-24164 3 packs: Lot# 23298-24136

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 68 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 68 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 68. All 68 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 13 June 2024 to termination on 8 October 2024. 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, milk and dairy, snacks and confectionery and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 68 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 67 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 Totally Cool, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 67 other records name this firm.

All 68 records for Totally Cool, Inc.

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