KROGER 12/16.5oz GRDL PNCK ORIG-KROGR UPC 011110811769
Treehouse Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 December 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- KROGER 12/16.5oz GRDL PNCK ORIG-KROGR UPC 011110811769
- UPC
- 011110811769
- Reason for recall
- potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Treehouse Foods
- Firm location
- Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0160-2025
- Quantity
- 9,907,389 cases (total)
- Distribution
- Nationwide in USA and Canada
- Initiated
- 17 October 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 4 December 2024
- Terminated
- 11 August 2025
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- All Batch Codes starting with 2C and within shelf-life. Best By Dates: OCT 01 2024 to OCT 11 2025
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 65 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 65 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 65. 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 65 of them.
- The recall ran for 10 months, from 17 October 2024 to termination on 11 August 2025. 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 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Other records from Treehouse Foods
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 128 other records name this firm.
All 129 records for Treehouse Foods
All 2024 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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