Shredded and blocks of Colby & Monterey Jack cheese - Labeled and Packaged: 1) Great…
Schreiber Foods Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 May 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product is being recalled due to the presence of foreign material (hard plastic).
The record
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- Product
- Shredded and blocks of Colby & Monterey Jack cheese - Labeled and Packaged: 1) Great Value, Finely Shredded, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 8 oz; packaged in plastic pouches, 12 per case; 2) Great Value, Finely Shredded, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 16 oz; packaged in plastic pouches, 10 per case; 3) Great Value, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 8 oz; wrapped in plastic, 16 per case. 4) Great Value, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 16 oz; wrapped in plastic, 12 per case; 5) HeluvaGood, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 8 oz; wrapped in plastic, 16 per case; 6) Members Mark, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 32 oz; wrapped in plastic, 20 per case; 7) Clover Valley, Colby & Monterey Jack Cheese, Net Wt 8 oz; wrapped in plastic, 12 per case;
- Reason for recall
- Product is being recalled due to the presence of foreign material (hard plastic).
- Recalling firm
- Schreiber Foods Inc
- Firm location
- Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1334-2019
- Quantity
- 64,549 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed to retail grocery stores and grocery store distribution centers in AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, ME, MN, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, and WI
- Initiated
- 14 April 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 15 May 2019
- Terminated
- 30 May 2019
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- BEST IF USED BY AUG 05 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY AUG 06 2019FV¿ BEST BY 08/09/19FV¿ BEST IF USED BY AUG 16 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 06 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 07 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 08 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 12 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 20 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 21 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 25 2019FV¿ BEST IF USED BY SEP 26 2019FV¿
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 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 7 weeks, from 14 April 2019 to termination on 30 May 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 29 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 shorter 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: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin. 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
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 cheese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-05-15 | Great Value, Finely Shredded, Fiesta Blend Cheese, Shredded Monterey Jack, Cheddar, Queso Quesadilla and Asadero Cheeses, Net Wt 8 oz; packaged in plastic pouches, 12 per case; | Schreiber Foods Inc | Product is being recalled due to the presence of foreign material (hard plastic). | 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 Schreiber Foods Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 11 other records name this firm.
All 12 records for Schreiber Foods Inc
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21 CFR 117.40 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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