Three Cheese Pasta Spinache Stonemill Kitchens, item # 71117.19500, 2/5 # packages.
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 August 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Three Cheese Pasta Spinache Stonemill Kitchens is recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. The pasta salad contains spinach that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
The record
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- Product
- Three Cheese Pasta Spinache Stonemill Kitchens, item # 71117.19500, 2/5 # packages. UPC 0 71117 19500 2. Product is pasta salads with vinaigrette dressings and vegetables including spinach. All products are in white plastic tubs with labeled lids packed 2/5 # to a corrugated case. Product is not labeled for retail sale. Refrigerated and ready to eat product.
- UPC
- 071117195002
- Reason for recall
- Three Cheese Pasta Spinache Stonemill Kitchens is recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. The pasta salad contains spinach that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
- Recalling firm
- Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Beaverton, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1848-2018
- Quantity
- 423 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed in AZ, CA, GA, ID, KS, MI, MT, NV, OK, OR, TX, UT, and WA. International country including CANADA
- Initiated
- 17 August 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 29 August 2018
- Terminated
- 5 November 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Expiration date 9/11/2018, Lot # 180911010 Expiration date 9/15/2018, Lot # 180915010
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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 17 August 2018 to termination on 5 November 2018. 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 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 12 days 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah. 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
Viral and parasitic contamination
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic 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 117.10
- Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
- 21 CFR 112
- Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
- 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.
Filed under cheese, fresh produce, sauces, dips and condiments and grains, flour and pasta. 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-22 | Hy-Vee Chopped Kit Chipotle Cheddar Salad 11.4 oz., UPC 075450246728, Green & red cabbage & green onions | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Fresh Express Chopped Kit Chipotle Cheddar 11.4 oz, UPC 071279306049, (Canada UPC) 0 71279 30931 6, Red and green cabbage, green leaf lettuce, carrots & green onions | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Giant Eagle Chopped Chipotle Cheddar Salad Kit 11.4 oz., UPC 030034923389, Cabbage and lettuce, carrots, and green onion | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2018-09-12 | Greek Salad with Greek Feta Dressing, 11 oz. UPC 0826766141081 | Caito Foods LLC. | The recalling firm learned from their supplier that an ingredient distributed to them tested positive for Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2012-10-17 | Springside Cheese, Cranberry Monterey Jack Cheese, 55-0172, V3, August 28, 2012, | Springside Cheese Corp | Springside Cheese Corp. is recalling cheese produced on August 21, 2012 through September 1, 2012. This voluntary recall has been initiated because the cheese has the potential to be contaminated with Giardia, a parasite, from an employee illness. | Class II |
| 2012-10-17 | Springside Cheese, Monterey Jack Dill Cheese, 55-0172, V3, August 21, 2012, | Springside Cheese Corp | Springside Cheese Corp. is recalling cheese produced on August 21, 2012 through September 1, 2012. This voluntary recall has been initiated because the cheese has the potential to be contaminated with Giardia, a parasite, from an employee illness. | Class II |
| 2012-10-17 | White Cheddar Cheese Curds: Springside Cheese, White Curds, 55-0172, V2, August 22, 2012, NET WEIGHT___. | Springside Cheese Corp | Springside Cheese Corp. is recalling cheese produced on August 21, 2012 through September 1, 2012. This voluntary recall has been initiated because the cheese has the potential to be contaminated with Giardia, a parasite, from an employee illness. | Class II |
| 2012-10-17 | Springside Cheese, Color Cheddar Horseradish Cheese, 55-0172, V2, August 24, 2012, | Springside Cheese Corp | Springside Cheese Corp. is recalling cheese produced on August 21, 2012 through September 1, 2012. This voluntary recall has been initiated because the cheese has the potential to be contaminated with Giardia, a parasite, from an employee illness. | Class II |
Other records from Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 283 other records name this firm.
All 284 records for Reser's Fine Foods, Inc.
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21 CFR 117.10 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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