Des Moines Register
04-22-07
Dateline Iowa
AMES
FDA warning shelves cake-batter ice cream
For months, Iowa State University's Dairy Science Club worked on an ice
cream flavor for the university's 150th birthday kickoff Saturday. They concocted
"Cyclone Celebration," a cake-batter flavored ice cream with cardinal and gold
sprinkles, and they prepared thousands of servings in time for Veishea Saturday.
Unfortunately, the Dairy Science Club had to make a substitution - vanilla ice
cream with cardinal and gold sprinkles - in their tent southeast of Beardshear
Hall, and chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, Oreo and Snickers in Kildee Hall.
City sanitarian Kevin Anderson alerted ISU officials Friday to a 2005 bulletin from
the Food and Drug Administration. The bulletin said ice cream containing cake
mix sickened people in eight states that year.
So, Dairy Science Club members spent all of Friday night making the vanilla
version of their ice cream. Proceeds from the ice cream sales go to scholarships.