Cass Clay Creamery AMPI Fargo Division recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 September 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Cass-Clay Creamery is voluntarily recalling a number of ice cream products because labelling of egg ingredient is not FALCPA compliant.
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
Product
HORNBACHERS, FRENCH VANILLA ICE CREAM, Half-gallon (1.89 L), 0 41130 21658 9 (Missing Egg in the Contains statement)
Reason for recall
Cass-Clay Creamery is voluntarily recalling a number of ice cream products because labelling of egg ingredient is not FALCPA compliant.
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
all products with a plant code of "38-25".
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 29 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 29 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 29. 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 29 of them.
The recall ran for 4 months, from 20 July 2012 to termination on 15 November 2012. 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 5 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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: North Dakota, Arizona, Minnesota, South Dakota, Kansas. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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.
Cass-Clay Creamery is voluntarily recalling a number of ice cream products because labelling of egg ingredient is not FALCPA compliant and for undeclared color Yellow 5.
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Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
