Blue Bell Ice Cream, Brand Homemade Vanilla Flavored, 3 FL OZ (88 mL), Cups, 24 per box…
Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 July 2018 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Vanilla ice cream not labeled for individual sale was distributed to stores for individual sale. They are therefore missing a nutrition facts panel, an ingredients statement , and they do not declare the presence of the major food allergen milk
The record
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- Product
- Blue Bell Ice Cream, Brand Homemade Vanilla Flavored, 3 FL OZ (88 mL), Cups, 24 per box, This Unit Not Labeled For Retail Sale
- Reason for recall
- Vanilla ice cream not labeled for individual sale was distributed to stores for individual sale. They are therefore missing a nutrition facts panel, an ingredients statement , and they do not declare the presence of the major food allergen milk
- Recalling firm
- Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
- Firm location
- Brenham, Texas, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1614-2018
- Quantity
- 136 boxes
- Distribution
- AL, GA, LA, MS, NC, OK, TX
- Initiated
- 21 June 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 18 July 2018
- Terminated
- 9 August 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Code Date: 051020584; Best By Date: 5/10/2020
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 7 weeks, from 21 June 2018 to termination on 9 August 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 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas. 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 Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 293 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-09-03 | Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream cartons with a Moo-llennium Crunch lid. Packaging contains Moo-llennium crunch. Packaged in half gallon cartons (1.89 L) | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | undeclared almond, walnut, and pecan. | Class II |
| 2019-11-06 | Blue Bell Butter Crunch Ice Cream packaged in a 1/2 Gallon (2 Qts) paperboard cup & lid (4 units per corrugated sleeve, 77 sleeves per pallet). | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | Possible foreign material in product. | Class II |
| 2017-01-18 | BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Blue Monster, 3 Gallons | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | All ice cream products, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookie Two Step ice Cream, Krazy Kookie Dough, and Blue Monster, containing cookie dough supplied by Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for them to contain Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2017-01-18 | BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Cookie Two Step, Half Gallon and Pint sizes | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | All ice cream products, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookie Two Step ice Cream, Krazy Kookie Dough, and Blue Monster, containing cookie dough supplied by Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for them to contain Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2017-01-18 | BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, Pint, and 3 Gallon sizes. | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | All ice cream products, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookie Two Step ice Cream, Krazy Kookie Dough, and Blue Monster, containing cookie dough supplied by Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for them to contain Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2017-01-18 | BLUE BELL(R) ICE CREAM Krazy Kookie Dough, 3 Gallons | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | All ice cream products, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Cookie Two Step ice Cream, Krazy Kookie Dough, and Blue Monster, containing cookie dough supplied by Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for them to contain Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-06-08 | BLUE BELL ICE CREAM Rocky Road pint | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | Product may have been mispackaged and contain undeclared wheat and soy. | Class II |
| 2015-07-01 | Blue Bell Ice Cream Blueberry Cheesecake Still a 1/2 Gal (2 QTS) | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | Five patients who were treated in a single hospital in Kansas were infected with one of four rare strains of Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2015-07-01 | Blue Bell Ice Cream Chocolate Chip 3 Gallon | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | Five patients who were treated in a single hospital in Kansas were infected with one of four rare strains of Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2015-07-01 | DZ Lime Fruit Bar - Single Serve Snack; 6 Pak Lime Fruit Bars | Blue Bell Creameries, L.P. | Five patients who were treated in a single hospital in Kansas were infected with one of four rare strains of Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
All 294 records for Blue Bell Creameries, L.P.
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