1. Fresh Attitude Baby Spinach, 11 oz. 2. Fresh Attitude Baby Spinach, 5 oz.
Veg Pro International Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 December 2020 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Spinach may be contaminated with Salmonella
The record
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- Product
- 1. Fresh Attitude Baby Spinach, 11 oz. 2. Fresh Attitude Baby Spinach, 5 oz.
- Reason for recall
- Spinach may be contaminated with Salmonella
- Recalling firm
- Veg Pro International Inc
- Firm location
- Sherrington, N/A, Canada
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0179-2021
- Quantity
- 376 cases (8 units X 5oz) and 96 cases (9 X 11oz)
- Distribution
- NY,NH, NJ, DE, CT,MA, MD, RI, VA & PA
- Initiated
- 26 November 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 16 December 2020
- Terminated
- 31 January 2022
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- 1.Best before 2020-12-04 UPC unit : 888048000288 UPC case : 10888048000285 2. , Best before 2020-12-04 & 2020-12-05 UPC unit : 888048000042 UPC case : 10888048000049
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 14 months, from 26 November 2020 to termination on 31 January 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 8 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 longer 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: New York, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island. 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.
All 2020 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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