Boulder Ice Cream Strawberry. 2.5 gallon tub with white top. Keep frozen at -20F.

Altamira Specialty Food Service recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 March 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Altamira Specialty Food Service announces a voluntary field action for Strawberry Ice Cream after receiving notice from its supplier that the strawberries used in the product may be contaminated with Hepatitis A virus.

The record

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Product

Boulder Ice Cream Strawberry. 2.5 gallon tub with white top. Keep frozen at -20F.

Reason for recall

Altamira Specialty Food Service announces a voluntary field action for Strawberry Ice Cream after receiving notice from its supplier that the strawberries used in the product may be contaminated with Hepatitis A virus.

Recalling firm

Altamira Specialty Food Service

Firm location

Denver, Colorado, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1671-2017

Quantity

3 tubs

Distribution

New Mexico

Initiated

28 October 2016

Reported by FDA

29 March 2017

Terminated

31 May 2017

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Used by date of 10/20/2016.

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 7 months, from 28 October 2016 to termination on 31 May 2017. 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 5 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of ice cream or frozen dessert run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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 and fresh produce. 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.

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