AMERICAN CHEESE SINGLES - 16CT - MARKET PANTRY; UPC: 8523911659 and AMERICAN CHEESE…

C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 July 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products were not held at an appropriate temperature due to a mechanical malfunction during transportation.

The record

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Product

AMERICAN CHEESE SINGLES - 16CT - MARKET PANTRY; UPC: 8523911659 and AMERICAN CHEESE SINGLES - 24CT - MARKET PANTRY;UPC: 8523911660

UPC

8523911659

Reason for recall

Products were not held at an appropriate temperature due to a mechanical malfunction during transportation.

Recalling firm

C & S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.

Firm location

Westfield, Massachusetts, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1633-2019

Quantity

Unknown

Distribution

Two Target Stores 1. 98 Veterans Memorial Highway in Commack, New York 2. 160 North Research Place in Central Islip, New York

Initiated

17 June 2019

Reported by FDA

31 July 2019

Terminated

31 July 2019

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Exact codes are unknown. The product being recalled was sold on June 17, 2019 at Target Stores in Commack, NY and Central Islip, NY.

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 330 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 330 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 330. All 330 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 17 June 2019 to termination on 31 July 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6 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.

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Every product in this recall

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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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