FDA Food Recalls

Recalls / Class II

Class IIF-2209-2014

Product

Cottage cheese, 4% milkfat, sold under the Daily Chef, Knudsen, or Kraft brand and packaged in a plastic container with a net weight of 8 oz. (227 g), a plastic container with a net weight of 16 oz. (1 lb.) 453 g, a plastic container with a net weight of 24 oz. (1.5 lb.) 680 g, a plastic container with a new weight of 32 oz. (2 lb.) 907 g, or a plastic container with a net weight of 5 lb. (2.27 kg).

Type
Food
Affected lot / code info
Plant Code: 06-245; Code Dates: 09 MAY 2014 through 23 JUL 2014
Quantity
1) Daily Chef: 59,826 containers; 2) Knudsen: 754,602 containers; 3) Kraft.: 545,028 containers

Why it was recalled

Kraft Foods is voluntarily recalling 18 SKUs of Knudsen Cottage Cheese, nine SKUs of Breakstone's Cottage Cheese, five SKUs of Simply Kraft Cottage Cheese and two SKUs of Daily Chef Cottage Cheese produced at our Tulare, CA manufacturing facility. Some ingredients used in these products were not stored in accordance with Kraft's temperature standards. While unlikely, this could create conditions t

Recalling firm

Firm
Kraft Foods Group
Notification channel
Letter
Type
Voluntary: Firm initiated
Address
3 Lakes Dr, Northfield, Illinois 60093-2753

Distribution

Distribution pattern
US: Nationwide (AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY) + Puerto Rico

Timeline

Recall initiated
2014-05-16
FDA classified
2014-07-24
Posted by FDA
2014-07-30
Terminated
2016-06-22
Status
Terminated

Source: openFDA Food Enforcement endpoint. Recall record F-2209-2014. The FDA issues recall classifications as health-hazard assessments, not legal findings.