The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released its report following an investigation into food safety issues at U.S. ice cream production facilities. The findings forced one manufacturer to cease operations in 2018 and resulted in three voluntary recalls in 2017 and 2018.
The goal of FDA's investigation was to determine the prevalence of certain types of harmful bacteria and whether ice cream manufacturers were properly implementing food safety programs. FDA inspected and obtained samples from 89 ice cream production facilities in 32 states in 2016 and 2017, detecting listeria at 19 facilities and one instance of salmonella.
As a result of the investigation, FDA suspended the food facility registration of Florida-based Working Cow Homemade in 2018. The suspension was lifted earlier in 2019 after the firm stopped making ice cream and switched to distributing products made by other ice cream makers. The company also made two voluntary recalls of its ice cream because of potential contamination with listeria.
Additionally, Pennsylvania-based Nelson's Creamery recalled one of its products because of an undeclared amount of a food additive, soy lecithin.
Related: A La Mode Ice Cream Going All-Natural; Listeria Outbreak Linked to Deli Meat, Cheese.
from Industry Operations http://bit.ly/2DwY9NI
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