Borden Good 2 Gether, UPC: 5300001112, Sharp Cheddar Cheese with Pretzels, Net Wt 2 0z…

Dairy Farmers OF America Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 April 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Borden GOOD2GETHER Snack Trays with Sell By dates of 9/16/2015, 9/17/2015, and 9/18/2015 are being recalled by Dairy Farmers of America. The manufacturer of the product trays recently experienced a temporary issue with their equipment, which may have resulted in a hard plastic punch hole knockout measuring 7.91mm being retained in some of the product trays. This has the potential to cause a chokin

The record

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Product

Borden Good 2 Gether, UPC: 5300001112, Sharp Cheddar Cheese with Pretzels, Net Wt 2 0z (57 g), Dist. By DFA Dairy Farmers of America, PO Box 909700, Kansas City, MO 64190.

UPC

5300001112

Reason for recall

Borden GOOD2GETHER Snack Trays with Sell By dates of 9/16/2015, 9/17/2015, and 9/18/2015 are being recalled by Dairy Farmers of America. The manufacturer of the product trays recently experienced a temporary issue with their equipment, which may have resulted in a hard plastic punch hole knockout measuring 7.91mm being retained in some of the product trays. This has the potential to cause a chokin

Recalling firm

Dairy Farmers OF America Inc

Firm location

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2026-2015

Quantity

250 cases(12 trays / case)

Distribution

US: AL, FL, GA, LA, OH,LOK,PA, UT.

Initiated

6 April 2015

Reported by FDA

29 April 2015

Terminated

30 April 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Sell by: 9/16/2015, 9/17/2015, 9/18/2015.

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. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 3 weeks, from 6 April 2015 to termination on 30 April 2015. 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 6 states, and 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 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: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 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

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

Every product in this recall

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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 Dairy Farmers OF America Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 37 other records name this firm.

All 38 records for Dairy Farmers OF America Inc

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