KERRY, GOLDEN CHEDDAR CHEESE 716932 , R-SE-0132, CONTAINS MILK, Item # 716932.465, Net…

Kerry Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 June 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Kerry has decided to voluntarily recall its lactic acid containing products because they are contaminated with metal fragments.

The record

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Product

KERRY, GOLDEN CHEDDAR CHEESE 716932 , R-SE-0132, CONTAINS MILK, Item # 716932.465, Net Wt 50 Lb (22.68Kg) KERRY, R-SE-0132TM, CONTAINS MILK, Item # 716932.TM, Net Wt 50 Lb (22.68Kg)

Reason for recall

Kerry has decided to voluntarily recall its lactic acid containing products because they are contaminated with metal fragments.

Recalling firm

Kerry Foods

Firm location

Beloit, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1513-2012

Quantity

178 CT

Distribution

AZ, CA, MN, NV, NC, OR, IL, IN, MO, NE, OH, PA, TN, TX, WI. CANADA, CHILE

Initiated

1 June 2012

Reported by FDA

27 June 2012

Terminated

31 January 2013

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

0510276403 0424276403

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 62 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 62 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 62. All 62 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 1 June 2012 to termination on 31 January 2013. 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 14 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 about typical 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: Arizona, California, Minnesota, Nevada, North Carolina, Oregon, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas. 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

Filed under cheese and milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 62 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 61 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 Kerry Foods

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 91 other records name this firm.

All 92 records for Kerry Foods

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