VEGETABLE EMPANADA, 100 CT, Prepared by: Kabobs, 54234 North Lake Dr. Lake City, GA 30260.
Kabobs Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 October 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product was manufactured with flour recalled due to E. coli O121 contamination.
The record
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- Product
- VEGETABLE EMPANADA, 100 CT, Prepared by: Kabobs, 54234 North Lake Dr. Lake City, GA 30260.
- Reason for recall
- Product was manufactured with flour recalled due to E. coli O121 contamination.
- Recalling firm
- Kabobs Inc
- Firm location
- Lake City, Georgia, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0129-2017
- Quantity
- 192 cases (100 units per case).
- Distribution
- AR, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL,IN, IO, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NJ, NY, NV, OK, OH, OR, PA, TN, TX WA, and WI.
- Initiated
- 6 July 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 26 October 2016
- Terminated
- 6 November 2017
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Item number: K716, Lot/Julian Code: PM15M22 / 15356
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 27 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 27 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 27. 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 27 of them.
- The recall ran for 16 months, from 6 July 2016 to termination on 6 November 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 distribution pattern names 25 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, 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
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli 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 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
Other records from Kabobs Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 29 other records name this firm.
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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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