Mondelez Global Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 August 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Mondelez Global received notification from a supplier, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. ( AMPI ), of a voluntary recall of Whey Powder Sweet Type as a precautionary measure due to the potential presence of Salmonella. The recalled whey powder is used as an ingredient in various Mondelez Global human food products.
The record
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Mondelez Global received notification from a supplier, Associated Milk Producers, Inc. ( AMPI ), of a voluntary recall of Whey Powder Sweet Type as a precautionary measure due to the potential presence of Salmonella. The recalled whey powder is used as an ingredient in various Mondelez Global human food products.
The impacted products were shipped to Consignees in the U.S., including Puerto Rico & the U.S. Virgin Islands. They were also shipped to consignees in Anguilla, Antigua/Barbuda, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Costa Rica, Curacao, Guatemala, Jamaica, Panama, Philippines, St. Eustatius, St. Vincent, Suriname and Trinidad. Please see attached spreadsheets for number of Domestic Consigne
Initiated
21 July 2018
Reported by FDA
8 August 2018
Terminated
27 March 2023
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
0 44000 04918 8 0 44000 00929 8
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 13 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 13 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 13. 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 13 of them.
The recall ran for 4.7 years, from 21 July 2018 to termination on 27 March 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 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.
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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 117.135(c)(1)
Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
21 CFR 117 subpart G
Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under cheese. A product can sit in more than one.
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.
Mondelz Global LLC (Mondelz) has initiated a recall of various products - belVita Breakfast Sandwich Dark Chocolate Creme and belVita Breakfast Sandwich Cinnamon Brown Sugar with Vanilla Creme, because of undeclared peanut allergen due to cross contamination.
Mondelz Global LLC (Mondelz) has initiated a recall of various products - belVita Breakfast Sandwich Dark Chocolate Creme and belVita Breakfast Sandwich Cinnamon Brown Sugar with Vanilla Creme, because of undeclared peanut allergen due to cross contamination.
Mondelz Global LLC (Mondelz) has initiated a recall of various products - belVita Breakfast Sandwich Dark Chocolate Creme and belVita Breakfast Sandwich Cinnamon Brown Sugar with Vanilla Creme, because of undeclared peanut allergen due to cross contamination.
Mondelz Global LLC (Mondelz) has initiated a recall of various products - belVita Breakfast Sandwich Dark Chocolate Creme and belVita Breakfast Sandwich Cinnamon Brown Sugar with Vanilla Creme, because of undeclared peanut allergen due to cross contamination.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
