Cut Fruit Express, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 October 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Cut Fruit Express, Inc processed cantaloupe that was later recalled by the supplier DFI Marketing due to a positive Salmonella sample.
The record
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Product
CANTALOUPE: UPPER LAKES Foods 142901 CANTALOUPE CHUNK 2/3# UPPER LAKES Foods 142800 CANTALOUPE HALVED/PEELED 2/5# & 5# USF 4259982 CANTALOUPE DICED 1/2" X 1/2" 2/5# CCP USF 4384418 CANTALOUPE CHUNKS 25# USF 8138646 CANTALOUPE CHUNK 4/5# USF 5985015 CANTALOUPE CHUNK 5# USF 0900001 CANTALOUPE PLD & HALVED 10# Manufactured by Cut Fruit Express, Mpls MN 55076. The following products Distributed by H Brooks & Co Mpls MN 55112: H.Brooks 37575 CANTALOUPE CHUNK Net WT 16 oz (454g) 4 per case 57 UPC# 03823237575 7. H.Brooks 33326 CANTALOUPE CHUNK 5# Net Wt 80 oz (2268g) 1 per case 02 UPC# 0383233326 9. Festival Foods-Best Of The Season H.Brooks 33326 CANTALOUPE CHUNK 5# Net Wt 80 oz (2268g) 1 per case 02 UPC# 0383233326 9. H.Brooks 31931 CANTALOUPE FRUIT CUP 6/5.5 Net Wt 5.5oz(16g) 6 per case 164 UPC# 03823231931 7. Festival Foods-Best of the Season 31931 H.Brooks 31931 CANTALOUPE FRUIT CUP 6/5.5 Net Wt 5.5oz(16g) 6 per case 164 UPC# 03823231931 7. H.Brooks 37567 CANTALOUPE CHUNK 4/12OZ Net Wt 12oz(340g) 4 per case 46 UPC# 0 3823237567 2. H.Brooks 26868 CANTALOUPE SLICES Net Wt 10 oz (284g) 3 per case 214 UPC# 0 3823226868 4. Reinhart Marshall 32774 CANTALOUPE DICE 40/1/2Cup Net Wt 3 oz (85g) 40 per case 360 CCP. Holiday Pantry 31561 Cantaloupe Chunks Net Wt 5.5oz (156g) 24 per case 309 UPC# 0 3823231561 6. Kitchens Cravings Cantaloupe Kwik Trip 31561 CANTALOUPE Chunks 5.5oz 24 per case UPC# 03977955259 5.
UPC
038232375757
Reason for recall
Cut Fruit Express, Inc processed cantaloupe that was later recalled by the supplier DFI Marketing due to a positive Salmonella sample.
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
Use-by 9/11 to 9/14
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 is one of 9 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 9 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 9. All 9 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 8 weeks, from 13 September 2012 to termination on 7 November 2012. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
Named in the distribution pattern: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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)(1)
Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
21 CFR 117 subpart G
Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 9 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 8 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.
Cut Fruit Express, Inc processed cantaloupe that was later recalled by the supplier DFI Marketing due to a positive Salmonella sample.
Class I
Other fresh produce 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.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
