Root Beer- possible pints/possible half gallon. Flavor of frozen dessert on the…

Jenis Splendid Ice Creams LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 September 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Frozen desserts do not include ingredients on the labeling.

The record

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Product

Root Beer- possible pints/possible half gallon. Flavor of frozen dessert on the immediate package. No ingredients listed.

Reason for recall

Frozen desserts do not include ingredients on the labeling.

Recalling firm

Jenis Splendid Ice Creams LLC

Firm location

Columbus, Ohio, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2470-2014

Quantity

Unknown for this product

Distribution

Distributed to all 50 states. No foreign countries.

Initiated

7 July 2008

Reported by FDA

24 September 2014

Terminated

6 November 2014

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

No codes: product distributed/purchased 1/1/2006-6/27/2008

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 32 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 32 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 32. 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 32 of them.
• The recall ran for 6.3 years, from 7 July 2008 to termination on 6 November 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6.2 years after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of ice cream or frozen dessert run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.

Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts. 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 Jenis Splendid Ice Creams LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 31 other records name this firm.

All 32 records for Jenis Splendid Ice Creams LLC

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