Whole raw RED onions are imported from Chihuahua of MEXICO. Products are packaged in 50…
ProSource Produce LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 November 2021 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salmonella Oranienburg.
The record
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- Product
- Whole raw RED onions are imported from Chihuahua of MEXICO. Products are packaged in 50 lb., 25 lb., 10 lb., 5 lb., 3 lb., and 2 lb. mesh sacks and in 50 lb., 40 lb., 25 lb., 10 lb., and 5 lb. cartons. Products are distributed and/or sold under the brands Big Bull, Markon First Crop, Markon Essentials, Peak Fresh Produce, Rio Blue, Rio Valley, ProSource, Sierra Madre, and Sysco Imperial Fresh.
- Reason for recall
- Salmonella Oranienburg.
- Recalling firm
- ProSource Produce LLC
- Firm location
- Hailey, Idaho, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0111-2022
- Quantity
- 6,820,172 lbs.
- Distribution
- Distributed in AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, and WI, as well as Ontario and Quebec, Canada.
- Initiated
- 20 October 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 10 November 2021
- Terminated
- 18 February 2022
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Lot Codes for all RED whole onions: 325 1102 1103 1125 1126 1127 1232 2141127 AB161ORRL183 ABA131ORR158 ABALS1ORR155 ABL161ORR155 ABL161ORR158 ABL161ORS153 ABL161ORS154 AGC261ORRL183 AGC261ORRL184 AGC261ORRL187 AGCEA11OR6005209 AGCRVF41ORM195 AGUL11OR6005180 AGUL11OR6005181 AGUL11OR6005183 AGUL11OR6005186 AGUL11OR6005187 APL171ORR158 APL171ORRL195 APL171ORRL205 APL171ORS159 APL31OR6005180 APL31ORMO183 APL31ORS165 APL51OR6005181 APL51OR6005182 APL51ORMO182 ASM191ORR144 CBK21ORM168 CBKL210RM159 CBKL21ORM160 CRC26RRL CRRV16RRL CRRVF16RMA CRRVF17RMA CRRVF19R05 CRRVF3R05 CRRVF4RMO EMT111ORM218 GR841OR6005186 GR841OR6005193 GR841OR6005195 GR841OR6005196 GR91ORRL195 GRL41OYRM167 IGV211OR6005196 JAB1901ORR158 JGN101ORM173 JGN121ORM172 JHW431ORMO201 JHW431ORMO203 JHW431ORMO204 JHW431ORMO207 JHW431ORMO209 JHW431ORMO210 JHW431ORRL200 JKP051OR6005196 JKP51ORRL187 JKP51ORRL189 JKP61ORRL182 JKP61ORRL186 JKPL211ORS154 JWW11710RRL217 JWW1171ORRL218 LR4RRR LR5RRT LRRN4RMO LRRN7RRL LRRV10R05 LRRV8RRL RMKRN41ORRL203 RMKRN61ORRL211 TYJ4M31ORM167 TYJ4M31ORM168 TYJ4M31ORM169 TYJ4M61ORM173 TYJ4M61ORM193 TYJ4M61ORMO183 TYJ4M61ORMO188 TYJ4M61ORR160 TYJ4M61ORRL180 TYJ4M61ORRL181 TYJ4M61ORRL186 TYJ4M61ORRL187 TYJ61ORM194 TYJ61ORMO197 TYJ61ORMO198 TYJ61ORMO201 TYJ61ORMO202 TYJ61ORMO203 VBJHRMO
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 3 of them.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 20 October 2021 to termination on 18 February 2022. 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 34 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, 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
Salmonella
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.
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.
Other records from ProSource Produce LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 3 records for ProSource Produce LLC
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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.
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