P.F. Chang's Home Menu, Pork & Leek Dumplings, frozen, packaged in 12.5 oz bags.
Conagra Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 November 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm is recalling Pork & Leek Dumplings because Shrimp & Pollack Fish dumplings were inadvertently packaged in the Pork & Leek Dumpling packaging. Undeclared allergens.
The record
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- Product
- P.F. Chang's Home Menu, Pork & Leek Dumplings, frozen, packaged in 12.5 oz bags. UPC: 0 36200 21215 8
- UPC
- 036200212158
- Reason for recall
- The firm is recalling Pork & Leek Dumplings because Shrimp & Pollack Fish dumplings were inadvertently packaged in the Pork & Leek Dumpling packaging. Undeclared allergens.
- Recalling firm
- Conagra Inc
- Firm location
- Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0085-2014
- Quantity
- 13,066/4/12.5 oz-bags/case
- Distribution
- The product was distributed to AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CN, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MI, NC, NE, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, PE, SC, TN, TX, UT, VI, WA, WI and WY. No foreign distribution was made, including Canada. There may be one military client. The firm is gathering the distribution information and will forward that to KAN-DO as soon as it is ready.
- Initiated
- 18 September 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 6 November 2013
- Terminated
- 29 July 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot code: 0663 312871 and 0663 312972, Use By MAY082014 and Lot code: 0663 312971 and 0663 312972, Use By MAY092014.
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 10 months, from 18 September 2013 to termination on 29 July 2014. 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 31 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of meat or poultry run a median of 8 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Most meat and poultry is regulated by USDA FSIS rather than the FDA, so a product appearing in this FDA dataset is usually a closed-faced sandwich, a product with meat as a minor ingredient, or a food FSIS does not claim.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, U.S. Virgin Islands, Washington, Wisconsin. 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
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
The allergens named in this record: fish, crustacean shellfish.
Filed under meat and poultry. A product can sit in more than one.
Other meat and poultry 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.
Other records from Conagra Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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