The Blue Kentucky Rose cheese sold in the Nashville, TN, Whole Foods Market store was…
Whole Foods Market Brand 365, Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 January 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Whole Foods Market announces that it is recalling "Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese KY BL" sold in its Louisville, KY store and "Blue Kentucky Rose Kenny's" cheese sold in its Nashville, TN store. These cheeses are being recalled because they have the potentia
The record
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- Product
- The Blue Kentucky Rose cheese sold in the Nashville, TN, Whole Foods Market store was cut and packaged in clear plastic wrap. It was sold with a Whole Foods Market scale label reading "Blue Kentucky Rose Kenny's".
- Reason for recall
- Whole Foods Market announces that it is recalling "Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese KY BL" sold in its Louisville, KY store and "Blue Kentucky Rose Kenny's" cheese sold in its Nashville, TN store. These cheeses are being recalled because they have the potentia
- Recalling firm
- Whole Foods Market Brand 365, Llc
- Firm location
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0869-2013
- Quantity
- 0 lbs - it was found that the TN store never received the recalled lots
- Distribution
- KY
- Initiated
- 5 October 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 16 January 2013
- Terminated
- 29 March 2013
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- The Blue Kentucky Rose Kenny's had a PLU of 71113 and includes all sell by dates, which are noted on the scale label.
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 5 October 2012 to termination on 29 March 2013. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months 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.
Filed under cheese and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-01-16 | Kentucky Bleu cheese was sold in the Louisville, KY, Whole Foods Market store, and was cut and packaged in clear plastic wrap. It was sold with a Whole Foods Market scale label reading 'Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese KY BL". | Whole Foods Market Brand 365, Llc | Whole Foods Market announces that it is recalling "Kenny's Farmhouse Cheese KY BL" sold in its Louisville, KY store and "Blue Kentucky Rose Kenny's" cheese sold in its Nashville, TN store. These cheeses are being recalled because they have the potentia | Class I |
Other cheese recalls
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Other records from Whole Foods Market Brand 365, Llc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 22 other records name this firm.
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