SHOP RITE 12/12OZ AMER NON-FAT WHITE, 4119045823

Dairy Farmers OF America Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 August 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Dairy Farmers of America Inc. is recalling a number of cheese products due that a piece of plastic film strip might remain attached to the cheese slice upon peeling the film from the product.

The record

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Product

SHOP RITE 12/12OZ AMER NON-FAT WHITE, 4119045823

Reason for recall

Dairy Farmers of America Inc. is recalling a number of cheese products due that a piece of plastic film strip might remain attached to the cheese slice upon peeling the film from the product.

Recalling firm

Dairy Farmers OF America Inc

Firm location

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2885-2015

Quantity

953,720 cases total for all product

Distribution

US: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, PR, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WV, WY. OUS: Libya, Colombia.

Initiated

12 June 2015

Reported by FDA

5 August 2015

Terminated

2 December 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Sell By/Use By 8/10/2015 to 4/30/2016

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 34 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 34 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 34. 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 34 of them.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 12 June 2015 to termination on 2 December 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 37 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia. 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

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.

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