Whole raw YELLOW onions are imported from Chihuahua of MEXICO. Products are packaged in…
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 YELLOW 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-0112-2022
- Quantity
- 26,628,274 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 YELLOW onions: 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 334 335 336 337 338 1128 1129 1130 1131 1132 2116 2124 2132 2132124 AB161OYCI186 AB161OYCI187 AB161OYCI188 AB161OYCI189 AB161OYCI190 AB161OYCI191 AB161OYCI194 AB161OYCI195 AB161OYCI196 AB161OYCI201 AB161OYS174 AB161OYS176 AB161OYS179 AB161OYS181 ABALS1OYCI208 ABAS1OYA176 ABAS1OYC173 ABAS1OYCI196 ABAS1OYCI205 ABAS1OYS172 ABL161OYCI182 AGC261OYCE202 AGC261OYMI204 AGC81OYMI204 AGCEA11OYMI210 AGCRVF11OYCE202 AGCRVF11OYCE204 AGCRVF191OYCE204 AGPRE261OYCE202 AGPRE261OYCE203 AGPRE261OYMI203 AGPRE261OYMI204 AGPRE261OYMI205 AGPREE11OYN1214 AGPRERVF11OYCE201 AGPRERVF11OYCE203 AGPRERVF191OYCE205 AGUL11OYC175 AGUL11OYC176 AGUL11OYS173 APL11OYA189 APL11OYA190 APL171OYA184 APL171OYCI198 APL171OYMI193 APL31OYA183 APL31OYS167 APL51OYCI175 APL51OYCI176 APL51OYS168 APL51OYS172 APL61OYCI179 APL61OYCI180 APL61OYCI181 APL81OYM188 APL81OYMI187 APL91OYA186 APL91OYA187 CRC26YCE CRD841OYC173 CRD841OYC175 CRD841OYC176 CRE6YCN CRRVF13YHA CRRVF13YSM CRRVF14YMN CRRVF19YLA CRRVF1YCE CRRVF2YCM CRRVF3YDR CRRVF3YLA CRRVF8YHA CRRVF9YMN GR91OYMI193 GR91OYMI194 GRL41OYC179 GRL41OYS172 GRL41OYS173 GRL41OYS175 GRL41OYS176 GRL91OYCI181 GRL91OYCI182 GRL91OYCI183 GRL91OYCI188 GRL91OYCI189 GRL91OYM189 IGV151OYCI215 IGV151OYMI205 IGV151OYMI207 IGV151OYMI208 IGV151OYMI209 IGV151OYMI210 IGV151OYMI211 IGV211OYC194 IGV211OYCI187 IGV211OYCI188 IGV211OYCI189 IGV211OYCI190 IGV211OYCI195 IGV211OYCI196 IGV211OYCI197 IGV211OYCI204 IGV211OYCI205 IGV211OYCI211 IGV211OYCI212 IGV211OYCI214 IGV211OYCI215 IGV211OYMI197 IGV211OYMI198 IGV211OYMI200 IGV211OYMI202 IGV211OYMI203 IGV211OYMI204 IGV211OYMI205 IGV211OYMI208 IGV211OYMI209 IGV261OYCI188 IGV261OYH172 IGV261OYH173 IGV261OYH175 IGV261OYH176 JB1211OYC175 JGC318YSM JGCD15YRDS JGCD18YSM JGCD19YHU JGCVYCM JGN021OYCI189 JGN031OYCI189 JGN131OYS179 JGNA021OYCI187 JGNA041OYCI193 JGNA051OYCI195 JGNA051OYCI196 JGNA41OYCI190 JHW431OYCI201 JHW431OYCI202 JHW431OYCI203 JHW431OYCI204 JHW431OYCI205 JHW431OYCI207 JHW431OYCI209 JHW431OYCI210 JHW431OYCI211 JHW431OYCI212 JHW431OYCI214 JHW431OYCI216 JHW431OYCI218 JKP111OYCI194 JKP211OYA188 JKP211OYA193 JKP211OYA195 JKP211OYCI179 JKP211OYCI181 JKP211OYCI182 JKP211OYCI197 JKP51OYA190 JKPL131OYS173 JKPL211OYA173 JKPL211OYA175 JKPL211OYCI176 JWW1171OYCI218 JWW1171OYCI219 JWW1171OYCI221 LR15YMN LR16YCM LR2YSM LRRN3YCM LRRN8YMN LRRV10YCN LRRV6YMN LRRV8YMN PB251OYC175 PB251OYC176 PB251OYC179 PB251OYC181 PB251OYC182 PB251OYC183 PB251OYC186 PB251OYC189 PB261OYC187 RMKRN61OYMI207 RMKRN81OYMI203 RMKRV61OYMI210 TYJ4M21OYS174 TYJ4M41OYA188 TYJ4M41OYA189 TYJ4M41OYA190 TYJ4M41OYA191 TYJ4M41OYA193 TYJ4M41OYA195 TYJ4M41OYCI196 TYJ4M41OYMI194 TYJ4M51OYA179
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. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
- 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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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.
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
All 2021 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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