Formed Hash Brown Patties, packaged in cardboard trays covered with plastic film, frozen…
Lamb Weston Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 October 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Hash brown product, sold under brands Brookshire's, Market Pantry, Breakfast, and Stater Bros, are recalled because the product may contain small fragments of hard, clear plastic.
The record
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- Product
- Formed Hash Brown Patties, packaged in cardboard trays covered with plastic film, frozen products. The following brands are subject to this recall. ***Brookshire's Golden Hash Brown Patties. Firm and address listed on label: "Brookshire Grocery Company PO Box 1411 Tyler, TX 75710-1411". -Tray UPC 0 92825 09630 6, retail packaged in 22.5 OZ (1 LB 6.5 OZ) 638g. -Case Item 09630, case UPC 1 00 92825 09630 3, case net wt. 16.8 LB (7.6 kg). ***Market Pantry Hash Brown Patties. Firm and address listed on label: "Dist. By Target Corporation Minneapolis, MN 55403". -Tray UPC 0 85239 01079 2, retail packaged in 22.5 OZ (1 LB 6.5 OZ) 637g. -Case item MP079, case UPC 2 00 85239 01079 6, case net wt. 16.87 LB (7.65 kg). ***Hill Country Fare Breakfast Hash Browns Potato Patties. Firm and address listed on label: "H-E-B San Antonio, Texas 78204". -Tray UPC 0 41220 90938 4, retail packaged in 45 OZ (2 LB 13 OZ) / CONT.NET. 1.27kg. -Case item H9400, case UPC 1 00 41220 90938 1, case net wt. 33.7 LB (15.2 kg). ***Stater Bros. Hash Brown Patties Shredded Potatoes. Firm and address listed on label: "Stater Bros. Markets San Bernardino, CA 92408" -Tray UPC 0 74175 50486 1, retail packaged in 45 OZ (2LB 13OZ) 1.27KG. -Case item # 50486, case UPC 1 00 74175 50486 8, case net wt. 33.75 LB (15.3 kg).
- UPC
- 092825096306
- Reason for recall
- Hash brown product, sold under brands Brookshire's, Market Pantry, Breakfast, and Stater Bros, are recalled because the product may contain small fragments of hard, clear plastic.
- Recalling firm
- Lamb Weston Inc
- Firm location
- Richland, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0001-2019
- Quantity
- Brookshire = 2075 cases; Market Pantry = 3954 cases; Hill Country Fare Breakfast = 864 cases; Stater Bros = 1166 cases
- Distribution
- CA, FL, IA, MA, MD, OH, PA, and TX.
- Initiated
- 20 September 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 10 October 2018
- Terminated
- 14 December 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- ***Brookshire's Golden Hash Brown Patties: Tray Code: Best By 090319 605003030HH Case Code: "Best By 090319 Lot 605003032021HH:MM" ***Market Pantry Hash Brown Patties: Tray code: Best if used by 03SEP2019 605003030HH Tray code: Best if used by 04SEP2019 605003040HH Case code: Best if used by 03SEP2019 605003032021HH:MM Case code: Best if used by 04SEP2019 605003042021HH:MM ***Breakfast Hash Browns: Tray Code: Sell By/C. Pref 09/2019 60508088HH:MM Tray Code: Sell By/C. Pref 01/2020 60508200HH:MM Case Code: Sell By/C. Pref 09/2019 6050808832HH:MM Case Code: Sell By/C. Pref 01/2020 6050820032HH:MM ***Stater Bros.: Tray Code: 6050808632HH:MM Sell By SEP272019 Tray Code: 6050808732HH:MM Sell By SEP282019 Case Code: 6050808632HH:MM Sell By SEP272019 Case Code: 6050808732HH:MM Sell By SEP282019
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. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 20 September 2018 to termination on 14 December 2018. 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 8 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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: California, Florida, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-10 | Murry's Hash Brown Potato Patties, packaged in cardboard trays covered with plastic film, frozen products. -Tray UPC 0 73744 04001 4, retail packaged in 40.5 OZ (2.53 LB) (1.14 kg). -Case item M06, case UPC 1 00 73744 04001 1, case net wt. 30.375 LBS. (13.8 kg) ***Packed for: MURRY's INC. 7852 Walker Dr., Suite 420 Greenbelt, MD 20770***". | Lamb Weston Inc | Hash brown product, sold under brand Murry's is recalled because the product may contain small fragments of hard, clear plastic. | Class II |
Other records from Lamb Weston Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.
All 10 records for Lamb Weston Inc
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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.
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