Chobani Champions tubes, 2.25 oz., are sold in packages of 8, 16, or 36 counts per…

Chobani Idaho recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 October 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Greek yogurt product Chobani Champions brand is recalled due to report of illnesses and product bloated and swollen.

The record

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Product

Chobani Champions tubes, 2.25 oz., are sold in packages of 8, 16, or 36 counts per packages: 8/8/2.25 oz. Champions 1.5% Milkfat Low-Fat Greek Yogurt Flyin Dragon Fruit-Tubes, UPC 8-18290-01265-4 Chobani Champions product also comes in 3.5 oz. plastic cups: 6/4/3.5 oz. Champions 1.5% Milkfat Low-Fat Greek Yogurt Dragon Fruit, UPC 8-18290-01264-7;

UPC

818290012654

Reason for recall

Greek yogurt product Chobani Champions brand is recalled due to report of illnesses and product bloated and swollen.

Recalling firm

Chobani Idaho

Firm location

Twin Falls, Idaho, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0070-2014

Quantity

2,433 (3.5 oz) cases; 7,335 (2.25 oz) cases

Distribution

distributed nationwide

Initiated

5 September 2013

Reported by FDA

30 October 2013

Terminated

13 November 2015

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Sep 11-13 (four didit time stamp) to Oct 07-13 (four digit time stamp) 16-012. This code is interpreted as Best By dates September 11, 2013 through October 07, 2013; 16-012 is the IMS number of a production plant in Twin Falls, Idaho.

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 64 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 64 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 64. All 64 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 2.2 years, from 5 September 2013 to termination on 13 November 2015. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.

What this recall was for

Filed under milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other milk and dairy 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 Chobani Idaho

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 63 other records name this firm.

All 64 records for Chobani Idaho

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