{"id":30380,"date":"2017-04-26T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T17:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/?p=30380"},"modified":"2019-06-27T13:55:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T17:55:43","slug":"fda-releases-inspection-report-vulto-creamery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/fda-releases-inspection-report-vulto-creamery\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Releases Vulto Creamery Inspection Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An FDA&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ucm\/groups\/fdagov-public\/@fdagov-afda-orgs\/documents\/document\/ucm554717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">inspection report<\/a>&nbsp;shows multiple findings of <em>Listeria <\/em>bacteria&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vultocreamery.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vulto Creamery<\/a>&nbsp;since 2014, as well as&nbsp;reports of unsanitary building conditions and handling of food.<\/p>\n<p>In early March, the Walton, N.Y.-based company recalled all of its&nbsp;cheeses after some products were linked to a multi-state <a href=\"https:\/\/developer83.wordpress-developer.us\/culturecheesemag\/blog\/listeria-outbreak-prompts-vulto-creamery-recall\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">listeria outbreak<\/a> that killed two people. The listeriosis-causing&nbsp;<em>L. monocytogenes&nbsp;<\/em>pathogen had been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/listeria\/outbreaks\/soft-cheese-03-17\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a> on three wheels of Vulto&#8217;s washed-rind Ouleout.<\/p>\n<p>The 9-page-long&nbsp;report notes that between July 2014 and February 2017, 198 environmental samples from various locations inside Vulto&#8217;s facility were tested for <em>Listeria<\/em>. Of these, 54 came back positive for&nbsp;<em>Listeria spp.*<\/em>&nbsp;Ten of these samples originated from&nbsp;multiple brushes and wooden aging boards\u2014items with direct contact to cheese\u2014between October 2014 and April 2015. Vulto reportedly cleaned the affected areas in his facility, but did not implement more effective sanitizing measures after subsequent samples continued to show&nbsp;<em>Listeria spp.<\/em>&nbsp;The report also mentions that Vulto neither investigated the specific&nbsp;<em>Listeria&nbsp;<\/em>species nor the potential source of the bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>Inspectors also witnessed a&nbsp;number of sanitary issues during their seven facility visits between Feb. 28, and March 22, 2017. These include an employee sticking his bare hands and arms into a vat to break up curds (with his arms showing visible cuts and abrasions); rust-like substances on machinery, storage spaces, and a ladle used for scooping milk; and dust-covered fans used to dry wooden cheese aging boards. Vulto also told investigators&nbsp;that he&nbsp;had never calibrated temperatures in the cheese aging room and walk-in cooler.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The FDA&#8217;s complete report can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/ucm\/groups\/fdagov-public\/@fdagov-afda-orgs\/documents\/document\/ucm554717.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Listeria spp<\/em>. encompasses all&nbsp;of the various&nbsp;<em>Listeria&nbsp;<\/em>species, including&nbsp;nonpathogenic&nbsp;<em>L. innocua&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>L. grayi,&nbsp;<\/em>and the harmful&nbsp;<em>L. monocytogenes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><small>Feature Photo Credit: Gregory Cherin<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidence of listeria dates back to 2014, and sanitary issues and poor facility maintenance are among the findings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":30390,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4925,2087,15503,15497,15501,15498,15500,15505,986,15504,15502,15291,15499],"coauthors":[940],"class_list":["post-30380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cheese-bites","tag-bacteria","tag-cheese","tag-disease","tag-fda","tag-health-report","tag-inspection-report","tag-l-monocytogenes","tag-press-release","tag-recall","tag-unsafe","tag-unsanitary","tag-vulto-creamery","tag-walton"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.4 (Yoast SEO v24.4) - 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