VAMPIRE SLAYER Garlic Cheddar Cheese Curds, net wt. 6 oz. Product is package in a sealed…
Face Rock Creamery LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 July 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- VAMPIRE SLAYER Garlic Cheddar Cheese Curds, net wt. 6 oz. Product is package in a sealed plastic cup with lid. UPC on 6oz. retail cup: 8 51222 00528 7. FaceRockCreamery.com MASTER CASE's label is read in parts: Item No. 240062 Vampire Slayer Curds 12/6oz., net wt. 4.5 lbs. Face Rock Creamery 680 2nd St. SE Bandon, OR 97411.
- Reason for recall
- Potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Face Rock Creamery LLC
- Firm location
- Bandon, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0214-2025
- Quantity
- 260 cases (12/6oz. cups per case)
- Distribution
- Distributed in CA and OR.
- Initiated
- 19 June 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 16 July 2025
- Terminated
- 26 November 2025
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Lot numbers: 20250519VS01 and 20250519VS02. Use By: 08292025 Lot number breaks down as: 2025 = Year 05 = Month 19 = Day of Month VS = Cheese type code 01 or 02 = Production (Vat)
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 19 June 2025 to termination on 26 November 2025. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 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 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.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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