RITZ Cheese Cracker Sandwiches , Family Size , (21.6 oz. carton)
Mondelez Global Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 June 2020 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm is recalling a limited quantity of RITZ Cheese Cracker Sandwiches Family Size (21.6 oz. carton) product in the United States, because of undeclared peanut allergen.
The record
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- Product
- RITZ Cheese Cracker Sandwiches , Family Size , (21.6 oz. carton)
- Reason for recall
- The firm is recalling a limited quantity of RITZ Cheese Cracker Sandwiches Family Size (21.6 oz. carton) product in the United States, because of undeclared peanut allergen.
- Recalling firm
- Mondelez Global Llc
- Firm location
- East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0960-2020
- Quantity
- 9110 cases
- Distribution
- Product has been distributed thru out the United States
- Initiated
- 1 May 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 3 June 2020
- Terminated
- 20 October 2023
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- UPC 0 44000 03826 7 Best by Dates 18SEP20 20SEP20 28SEP20 29SEP20 30SEP20 01OCT20 02OCT20
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 3.5 years, from 1 May 2020 to termination on 20 October 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 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: peanuts.
Filed under cheese, snacks and confectionery 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 Mondelez Global Llc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 36 other records name this firm.
All 37 records for Mondelez Global 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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