The following items sold at Stop & Shop stores located in the New York Metro Region…
C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 September 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Perishable products were not held at an appropriate temperature.
The record
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- Product
- The following items sold at Stop & Shop stores located in the New York Metro Region: Galaxy Parmeson Topping Vitro Vegan Cheddar Shreds Vitro Cheddar Block Vitros Cheddar Slices Vitros Mozz Shreds Vitros vegan Feta Galaxy Cheddar Veggie Sliced Mozzarella Field Roast Chao Sliced Tomato Field Roast Chao Creamy Original Arivia Plant Based Cream Cheese Galaxy Cheddar Veggie Sliced Pepper Jack Galaxy Cheddar Veggie Sliced American
- Reason for recall
- Perishable products were not held at an appropriate temperature.
- Recalling firm
- C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc.
- Firm location
- Keene, New Hampshire, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1467-2023
- Quantity
- 29,469 cases of various products, styles of pack, case sizes and counts
- Distribution
- NY, NJ, CT
- Initiated
- 19 July 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 6 September 2023
- Terminated
- 27 September 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Unit UPCs: 7717264005 1093403021 1093403067 1093403010 1093403020 1093403023 7717266720 6380335631 6380335628 1093403019 7717166718 7717266722
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 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
- The recall ran for 2 months, from 19 July 2023 to termination on 27 September 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 distribution pattern names 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 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: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under cheese, milk and dairy, fresh produce and spices and seasonings. 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 C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 337 other records name this firm.
All 338 records for C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.
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