61490 Cheese Cup with 2 Grains MB (meal box)

E S Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 April 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Animal Crackers in Meal Kits may contain metal shavings (bronze)

The record

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Product

61490 Cheese Cup with 2 Grains MB (meal box)

Reason for recall

Animal Crackers in Meal Kits may contain metal shavings (bronze)

Recalling firm

E S Foods

Firm location

Woodbury, New York, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0718-2023

Quantity

1,044,918 meal kits (total)

Distribution

Nationwide

Initiated

3 April 2023

Reported by FDA

19 April 2023

Terminated

27 September 2023

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Lot: 07/29/23 3067 B1 Best Used By 07/29/23 3067 Lot: 10/04/23 3068 B1 Best Used By 10/04/23 3068

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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. 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 15 of them.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 3 April 2023 to termination on 27 September 2023. 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 2 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under cheese, grains, flour and pasta and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

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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