Wegmans ITALIAN CLASSICS Organic BLUSH SAUCE, NET WT 23.5 OZ (1 LB 7.5 OZ) 667g
LiDestri Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 October 2016 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Incorrect rear panel label was applied to jars of cream sauce which declared milk allergen
The record
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Product
Wegmans ITALIAN CLASSICS Organic BLUSH SAUCE, NET WT 23.5 OZ (1 LB 7.5 OZ) 667g
Reason for recall
Incorrect rear panel label was applied to jars of cream sauce which declared milk allergen
Recalling firm
LiDestri Foods, Inc.
Firm location
Fairport, New York, United States
Classification
Class III
Status
Terminated
Recall number
F-0045-2017
Quantity
66 cases
Distribution
PA thru Wegmans markets
Initiated
24 July 2016
Reported by FDA
19 October 2016
Terminated
6 April 2017
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
USE BY 02/11/18 F0881 TIME
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 8 months, from 24 July 2016 to termination on 6 April 2017. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
