Cheese Stick Marinara Sauce Red Vegetable, Item # 61418

E S Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 December 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. A potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination was verified by the sunflower kernel raw material supplier.

The record

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Product

Cheese Stick Marinara Sauce Red Vegetable, Item # 61418

Reason for recall

A potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination was verified by the sunflower kernel raw material supplier.

Recalling firm

E S Foods

Firm location

Woodbury, New York, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0645-2017

Quantity

2,559 cases

Distribution

CA, KS, KY, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA and Wi to foodservice distributors, food banks and school meal programs

Initiated

19 May 2016

Reported by FDA

14 December 2016

Terminated

17 April 2017

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Lot #'s: 1) 5338, 2) 6007, 3) 6011, 4) 6028, 5) 6047, 6) 6057, 7) 6077, 8) 6082, 9) 6112, 10) 6127, 11) 6130 Best Used By: 1) 7/11/16, 2) 7/28/16, 3) 8/12/16, 4) 8/12/16, 5) 10/1/16, 6) 10/1/16, 7) 10/4/16, 8) 10/4/16, 9) 10/4/16 & 12/9/16, 10) 10/30/16, 11) 10/30/16

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 20 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 20 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 20. All 20 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 11 months, from 19 May 2016 to termination on 17 April 2017. 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 8 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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: California, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Filed under cheese and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

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Other cheese 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 E S Foods

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 34 other records name this firm.

All 35 records for E S Foods

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