Springside Monterey Jack Chicken Soup Cheese Packaged in the following sizes: Net Wt.

Springside Cheese Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 March 2018 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Various cheeses are being recalled because they may have been made with milk that was held for 13.8 seconds during pasteurization.

The record

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Product

Springside Monterey Jack Chicken Soup Cheese Packaged in the following sizes: Net Wt. 1 lb. and 40 lbs.

Reason for recall

Various cheeses are being recalled because they may have been made with milk that was held for 13.8 seconds during pasteurization.

Recalling firm

Springside Cheese Corp

Firm location

Oconto Falls, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0950-2018

Quantity

175.78 lbs.

Distribution

AK, CO, FL, IL, MD, NE, SD, TX, WI

Initiated

14 February 2018

Reported by FDA

14 March 2018

Terminated

19 November 2019

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Lot: 12271703

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 12 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 12 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 12. 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 12 of them.
• The recall ran for 21 months, from 14 February 2018 to termination on 19 November 2019. 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 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Nebraska, South Dakota, Texas, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under cheese, meat and poultry and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Other cheese recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Springside Cheese Corp

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 35 other records name this firm.

All 36 records for Springside Cheese Corp

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