Kraft French Vanilla, Creamer, Non-Dairy Creamer, Net WT/Contenido Neto 35.3 oz (1 kg)…
Kerry Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 July 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Kerry, Inc. is voluntarily recalling all Nondairy Creamer produced between May 12, 2015 and May 28, 2015 due to the potential for a few packages to contain small pieces of metal from a broken screen on the production line.
The record
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- Product
- Kraft French Vanilla, Creamer, Non-Dairy Creamer, Net WT/Contenido Neto 35.3 oz (1 kg) SKU 2100002971. Publix, Nondairy, FrenchVanilla, Naturally and Artificially Flavored Coffee Creamer, Net Wt 15 oz (425 g), SKU 4141501625.
- Reason for recall
- Kerry, Inc. is voluntarily recalling all Nondairy Creamer produced between May 12, 2015 and May 28, 2015 due to the potential for a few packages to contain small pieces of metal from a broken screen on the production line.
- Recalling firm
- Kerry Foods
- Firm location
- Beloit, Wisconsin, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2788-2015
- Quantity
- 402 cases
- Distribution
- CA, FL, TX.
- Initiated
- 29 May 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 15 July 2015
- Terminated
- 19 April 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 515595606 522595602
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 23 months, from 29 May 2015 to termination on 19 April 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Florida, Texas. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under milk and dairy and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 Kerry Foods
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 91 other records name this firm.
All 92 records for Kerry Foods
All 2015 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.40 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.
Early accessRecall 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.