1% Low Fat Cottage Cheese distributed under the following labels and sizes: (a) Fiber…
HP Hood LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 June 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible presence of metal fragments.
The record
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- Product
- 1% Low Fat Cottage Cheese distributed under the following labels and sizes: (a) Fiber One brand Lowfat Cottage Cheese, 1% Milkfat Minimum, NET WT, 16 OZ (453g), UPC 041483035585, DISTRIBUTED BY HP HOOD LLC, LYNNFIELD, MA 01940; (b) Hood brand Low Fat Cottage Cheese, SMALL CURD, 1% MILKFAT, NET WT 24 OZ (680g), UPC 044100106330; HP HOOD LLC, LYNNFIELD, MA 01940; (c) Hannaford brand Lowfat Cottage Cheese, 1% milkfat, small curd, NET WT. 24 OZ (680g), UPC 041268148615, DISTRIBUTED BY; HANNAFORD BROS. CO., SCARBOROUGH, ME 04074; (d) Weis brand lowfat cottage cheese, SMALL CURD, 1% MILKFAT, NET WT 24 OZ (1 LB 8 OZ) 680g, UPC 041497096886, PACKED FOR WEIS MARKETS, INC., SUNBURY, PA 17801; (e) Big Y brand Small Curd Low Fat Cottage Cheese, 1% MILKFAT, NET WT 24 OZ (1 LB 8Z) 680g, UPC 018894300977, DISTRIBUTED BY: BIG Y FOODS, INC., SPRINGFIELD, MA 01104; (f) Market Basket brand Lowfat Cottage Cheese, Small Curd, 1% Milkfat, NET Wt. 24 OZ. (680g), UPC 049705682968, PACKED EXCLUSIVELY FOR DEMOULAS SUPERMARKETS INC., TEWKSBURY, MA 01876; (g) Shurfine brand LOWFAT Cottage Cheese, 1% MILKFAT, NET WT 24 OZ (1 LB 8 OZ) 680g, UPC 015400834605, Proudly Distributed By: Western Family Foods, Inc., Portland, OR 97208; (h) Friendly Farms brand Small Curd Cottage Cheese, Low Fat, 1% MILKFAT, NET WT 24 OZ (1 LB 8 OZ) 680 g, UPC 041498154905.
- UPC
- 041483035585
- Reason for recall
- Possible presence of metal fragments.
- Recalling firm
- HP Hood LLC
- Firm location
- Vernon, New York, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1473-2013
- Quantity
- N/A
- Distribution
- NY, CT, MD, PA, MO, MN, WI, IA, UT, OR, AZ, IL, FL, WI, AL, ME, OH, NE, NV, IN, and CA
- Initiated
- 22 May 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 12 June 2013
- Terminated
- 8 May 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Date Code JUN 14 13
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 4.0 years, from 22 May 2013 to termination on 8 May 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 20 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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: New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Utah, Oregon, Arizona, Illinois, Florida, Alabama, Maine, Ohio, Nebraska, Nevada, Indiana, California. 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 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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.
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 HP Hood LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 21 other records name this firm.
All 22 records for HP Hood LLC
All 2013 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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