Blue Bunny Premium Ice Cream, Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate, 1.75 quart. Packaged in 4/56-oz…

Wells Enterprises, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 May 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product may contain egg which is not listed on the ingredient label.

The record

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Product

Blue Bunny Premium Ice Cream, Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate, 1.75 quart. Packaged in 4/56-oz carton cases. Item # 745152, UPC 070640034123. Manufactured by Wells Enterprises, Inc., Le Mars, IA.

UPC

070640034123

Reason for recall

The product may contain egg which is not listed on the ingredient label.

Recalling firm

Wells Enterprises, Inc.

Firm location

Le Mars, Iowa, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1961-2014

Quantity

87/4/56-oz carton cases

Distribution

The product was distributed to KS, IN and IA.

Initiated

2 May 2014

Reported by FDA

28 May 2014

Terminated

22 July 2014

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Lot 40010 TTT 19115 4100, Best Used by 10/9/15

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 3 months, from 2 May 2014 to termination on 22 July 2014. 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 2 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: Indiana, Iowa. 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, milk and dairy and snacks and confectionery. 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 Wells Enterprises, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 24 other records name this firm.

All 25 records for Wells Enterprises, Inc.

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