Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake, 20 oz., in recyclable plastic circular container with…
Gem City Fine Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 September 2021 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Frozen desserts are mislabeled. Flourless Chocolate Torte mislabeled with Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake ingredients and nutrition label. Chocolate Torte and Triple Berry Streusel are both mislabeled with pecans as an ingredient although firm has not used nuts of any kind in its products or the facility since April 2018.
The record
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- Product
- Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake, 20 oz., in recyclable plastic circular container with black base and clear lid, Gem City Fine Foods, 3403 S 1400 W, Suite C, West Valley City, UT 84119. There are 4/cs. UPC 855026001193. Store Frozen or Thawed in Fridge.
- UPC
- 855026001193
- Reason for recall
- Frozen desserts are mislabeled. Flourless Chocolate Torte mislabeled with Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake ingredients and nutrition label. Chocolate Torte and Triple Berry Streusel are both mislabeled with pecans as an ingredient although firm has not used nuts of any kind in its products or the facility since April 2018.
- Recalling firm
- Gem City Fine Foods, LLC
- Firm location
- West Valley City, Utah, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0929-2021
- Quantity
- 196 cases
- Distribution
- Two distributors in CO, TX.
- Initiated
- 7 August 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 8 September 2021
- Terminated
- 14 July 2022
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Batch 21168-04; Best by June 17, 2022 Batch 21187-06; Best by July 6, 2022 Batch 21188-06; Best by July 7, 2022 Batch 21179-05; Best by June 28, 2022
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 11 months, from 7 August 2021 to termination on 14 July 2022. 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 5 weeks 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.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
The allergens named in this record: tree nuts.
Filed under cheese and fresh produce. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-08 | Flourless Chocolate Torte, 14 oz., in recyclable plastic circular container with black base and clear lid, Gem City Fine Foods, 3403 S 1400 W, Suite C, West Valley City, UT 84119. There are 4/cs. UPC 855026001186. Store Frozen or Thawed in Fridge. | Gem City Fine Foods, LLC | Frozen desserts are mislabeled. Flourless Chocolate Torte mislabeled with Triple Berry Streusel Cheesecake ingredients and nutrition label. Chocolate Torte and Triple Berry Streusel are both mislabeled with pecans as an ingredient although firm has not used nuts of any kind in its products or the facility since April 2018. | Class II |
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 Gem City Fine Foods, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 5 records for Gem City Fine Foods, LLC
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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