Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Black Cherry 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup…
Meijer Distribution, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 March 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass.
The record
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- Product
- Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Black Cherry 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs.
- Reason for recall
- The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass.
- Recalling firm
- Meijer Distribution, Inc
- Firm location
- Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0870-2018
- Quantity
- 8976
- Distribution
- Domestic: Meijer stores in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky and Wisconsin No Foreign or VA/DOD
- Initiated
- 5 February 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 7 March 2018
- Terminated
- 26 June 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Date code for all products: 3/8/2018 7-08820-12657-2 Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Black Cherry 5.3 oz.
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. All 6 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 5 February 2018 to termination on 26 June 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 FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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.
Filed under milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 6 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Blueberry 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Plain 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Vanilla 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Strawberry 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Yogurt Blended Low-fat Blueberry 6 oz.The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
Other milk and dairy 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 Meijer Distribution, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 47 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Blueberry 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Plain 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Vanilla 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Greek Yogurt 0% Strawberry 5.3 oz. The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the above-mentioned UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-03-07 | Meijer Yogurt Blended Low-fat Blueberry 6 oz.The products are packaged in a plastic cup with a foil seal and a label listing the UPCs. | Meijer Distribution, Inc | The firm is announcing a voluntary recall of select Meijer branded Greek and Low-fat yogurt as a precautionary measure due to the potential risk of small particles of glass. | Class II |
| 2018-01-10 | Meijer Michigan Harvest Salad 10 Oz retail unit in plastic container UPC: 7-08820-68400-3 4 retail containers per wholesale case | Meijer Distribution, Inc | Sliced apples within the products being potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2018-01-10 | Meijer Sharable Waldorf Salad 16 Oz retail unit in plastic container UPC: 7-13733-53864-0 4 retail containers per wholesale case | Meijer Distribution, Inc | Sliced apples within the products being potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2018-01-10 | Meijer Fresh Cranberry Apple Stuffing Starter 18.9 Oz retail unit in plastic container UPC: 7-19283-37977-1 4 retail containers per wholesale case | Meijer Distribution, Inc | Sliced apples within the products being potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2017-12-13 | Roasted & Salted Cashews and Chocolate Covered Cashews; packaged in clear plastic containers; NET WT 18 oz. (1 LB 2 oz.), 510 g; UPC 8-86926-46877-9 | Meijer Distribution, Inc | Packages are mislabeled and actually contain undeclared mixed nuts instead of chocolate covered cashews. | Class II |
| 2017-11-22 | Vegetable products including: ZUCCHINI AND SQUASH COMBO | Meijer Distribution, Inc | Meijer Inc. is voluntarily recalling multiple processed vegetable products following a supplier's recall due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
All 48 records for Meijer Distribution, Inc
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