Food recall

Quality Dairy Farms Inc. recall: Mercer's Ice Cream Old Fashioned Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, (1.89 Liter)

Quality Dairy Farms Inc., of Boonville, NY, recalled Mercer's Ice Cream Old Fashioned Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, (1.89 Liter) and 2 other products. The FDA's reason: “The ice cream product contained soy lecithin (the ingredient statement listed lecithin only).” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on October 13, 2011, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of December 5, 2012. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class II

It could cause temporary or minor harm

Why

See FDA's words below

Status

Terminated

Closed November 23, 2012

The recall

Company
Quality Dairy Farms Inc. (Boonville, NY)
Reason, in FDA's words
“The ice cream product contained soy lecithin (the ingredient statement listed lecithin only).”
Where it was sold
Upstate New York
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
60965

The 3 products recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-0727-2013 Class II

    Mercer's Ice Cream Old Fashioned Cookie Dough, Half Gallon, (1.89 Liter), UPC 036667 200231

    Codes: 1243, 1236, 1208, 1224, 1203, 1214

    Quantity: 454 half gallon units

  • F-0728-2013 Class II

    Mercer's Ice Cream Cookies 'N Cream, Half Gallon (1.89 Liter), UPC 036667 200392

    Codes: 1243, 1236, 1208, 1224, 1203, 1214

    Quantity: 499 half gallon units

  • F-0729-2013 Class II

    Mercer's Ice Cream Cream N' Coffee Fudge, Half Gallon, (1.89 Liter), UPC 074513 003513

    Codes: 1243, 1236, 1208, 1224, 1203, 1214

    Quantity: 241 half gallon units

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of December 5, 2012.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.