Class ITerminated · reported 2017-01-11

Fresh Mozerella, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516.

Chapel Hill CreameryLLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 January 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.

The record

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Product: Fresh Mozerella, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516.
Reason for recall: The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.
Recalling firm: Chapel Hill CreameryLLC
Firm location: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1142-2017
Quantity: Unknown
Distribution: GA, NC, SC, TN and VA.
Initiated: 27 July 2016
Reported by FDA: 11 January 2017
Terminated: 15 June 2017
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: Lot numbers: 160725; 160721; 160718; 160714; 160711; 160706; 160704; 160630; 160627; 160623; 160620; 160613; 160606; 160530; 160526; 160523; 160516; 160509; 160502; 160425; 160418; 160412; 160405; 160329 and 160316.

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 13 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 13 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 13. 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 13 of them.
The recall ran for 11 months, from 27 July 2016 to termination on 15 June 2017. 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 5 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 months after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Salmonella

Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.

A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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)(1): Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
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.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(2): Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.

Other records from Chapel Hill CreameryLLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 12 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2017-01-11	Carolina Moon, typical wheel is about .55 lb, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, sold by weight.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Hot Farmers cheese, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, is sold in whole wheels (about .5 lb) or in cut wheels (small pieces) at retail only.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Burrata, is sold by each, retail only, packaged in water.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Smoked Farmers Cheese, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Semi-Ripened, New Moon, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, is sold retail by the each, .25 lb wheels, and by the 5 pack of .25 lb wheels at wholesale.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Hickory Grove, raw milk, wheel is about 4 lbs, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, sold by weight both cut and whole, retail and wholesale.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Smoked Mozzarella, sold in 1 lb logs, half lb balls, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, and cherry-sized balls. At retail the half lb balls are sold by the each, packaged in water. All sizes are sold at wholesale, either packaged in water or dry packed. At retail the cherry sized balls are sold by weight.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Pheta, cut and packaged in brine, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, sold by 10 lb tub (wholesale) and by individual packages about .5 lb (retail).	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Dairyland Farmers cheese, typical wheel is .5 lb, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, sold by weight both retail and wholesale The mozzarella and farmers cheese are also sold smoked, by weight, both retail and wholesale.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-01-11	Calvander, raw milk, wheel is about 10 lbs, Chapel Hill Creamery, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, sold by weight both cut and whole.	Chapel Hill CreameryLLC	The products may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I

All 13 records for Chapel Hill CreameryLLC

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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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