Little Caesar's Italian Cheese Bread Kits, Paper cartons, Contains: 3 square bread…

Champion Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 November 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Champion Foods, LLC is voluntarily conducting a recall of multiple brands of Cheesy Bread sticks, Italian Bread sticks, bread kits and pizza kits following a supplier's recall of ingredient due to potential physical contaminants from an ink pen.

The record

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Product

Little Caesar's Italian Cheese Bread Kits, Paper cartons, Contains: 3 square bread crusts (10 inches), 3 packages of Garlic Butter sauce, 3 packages of cheese, 3 packages of Italian Seasoning

Reason for recall

Champion Foods, LLC is voluntarily conducting a recall of multiple brands of Cheesy Bread sticks, Italian Bread sticks, bread kits and pizza kits following a supplier's recall of ingredient due to potential physical contaminants from an ink pen.

Recalling firm

Champion Foods, LLC

Firm location

New Boston, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0379-2018

Quantity

97104 kits & 8324 kits (total)

Distribution

Domestic only: MI, AR, IA, IL

Initiated

6 October 2017

Reported by FDA

29 November 2017

Terminated

13 March 2018

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

BLD Italian Cheese- NB27617 (with time stamps between 0016 and 0928)

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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. 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 6 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 6 October 2017 to termination on 13 March 2018. 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 distribution pattern names 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Iowa, Illinois. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under cheese, milk and dairy, bakery, sauces, dips and condiments and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Other cheese recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Champion Foods, LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for Champion Foods, LLC

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