Bubbies Homemade Ice Cream and Desserts, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 September 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
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
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream -Green Tea Item Code CS800056, UPC Code 20023-9, UPC GTIN 10787325200236. Product is packed in oriented polystyrene sheet (OPS) thermo-formed 6-cavity trays, tray is packed in 6 count boxes.
Reason for recall
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Distributed nationwide to all 50 states, Russia, and Lebanon. No govt/VA/military consignees.
Initiated
19 August 2019
Reported by FDA
18 September 2019
Terminated
10 March 2020
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
Lot 010819,012919,021919, 031419,032719,041719, 050719,052919,061819, 070819,012219,020519, 022619,032219,040919, 042219,051419,060319, 062519
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 22 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 22 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 22. 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 22 of them.
The recall ran for 7 months, from 19 August 2019 to termination on 10 March 2020. 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 1 state, 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 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.
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
21 CFR 117.40
Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
21 CFR 117.80(c)
Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
21 CFR 117.150
Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
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.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
Bubbies Mochi Ice Cream, Bubbles Cookie Dough Ice Cream Bites,Trader Joe's Mochi six-piece products because of the potential for "free-floating" foreign plastic pieces in the product.
21 CFR 117.40 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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.
