Sargento Sliced Pepper Jack Cheese, 12 oz., UPC 4610000108 with Sell By dates of…

Sargento Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 March 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Sargento Foods Inc. was notified by their supplier that the cheese that was supplied may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Sargento Sliced Pepper Jack Cheese, 12 oz., UPC 4610000108 with Sell By dates of 12JUN17B, 09JUL17B, 02MAY17B, 03MAY17B, 11JUN17B, and 10JUL17B. Sargento Sliced Pepper Jack, 7.5 oz., UPC 4610000122, Sell By date: 03MAY17B

UPC

4610000108

Reason for recall

Sargento Foods Inc. was notified by their supplier that the cheese that was supplied may have been contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Sargento Foods, Inc.

Firm location

Plymouth, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1647-2017

Quantity

116,554 cases / 2,467,145 units for all products

Distribution

USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, PR, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI. OUS: GUATEMALA, MEXICO, PANAMA, NASSAU

Initiated

10 February 2017

Reported by FDA

29 March 2017

Terminated

3 August 2017

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Sell By dates of 12JUN17B, 09JUL17B,02MAY17B, 03MAY17B, 11JUN17B and 10JUL17B.

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. All 17 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 10 February 2017 to termination on 3 August 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 35 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 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: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington. 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 spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 17 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 16 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 Sargento Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 32 other records name this firm.

All 33 records for Sargento Foods, Inc.

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