Kilby Cream Ice Cream Various Flavors: , Vanilla Size: 2.5 Gal , 7 oz.

Kilby Cream recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 September 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. According to the firm a process deviation and proper temperatures were not reached during ice cream production and mix storage.

The record

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Product

Kilby Cream Ice Cream Various Flavors: , Vanilla Size: 2.5 Gal , 7 oz.

Reason for recall

According to the firm a process deviation and proper temperatures were not reached during ice cream production and mix storage.

Recalling firm

Kilby Cream

Firm location

Colora, Maryland, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-3553-2017

Quantity

21 units

Distribution

Product was distributed in MD, PA, and DE . There are 14 direct accounts affected.

Initiated

4 August 2017

Reported by FDA

27 September 2017

Terminated

3 January 2018

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

P1717, P1722

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 35 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 35 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 35. 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 35 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 4 August 2017 to termination on 3 January 2018. 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 8 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under ice cream and frozen desserts and milk and dairy. 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.

Other records from Kilby Cream

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 34 other records name this firm.

All 35 records for Kilby Cream

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