Green Giant Fresh brand, Whole YELLOW Onions packaged in 2 lb. flexible mesh bags, UPC…
POTANDON PRODUCE LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 November 2021 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salmonella Oranienburg. Products are supplied by Keeler Family Farm.
The record
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- Product
- Green Giant Fresh brand, Whole YELLOW Onions packaged in 2 lb. flexible mesh bags, UPC 60580600120-8. Green Giant Fresh brand, Whole YELLOW Onions packaged in 3 lb. flexible mesh bags, UPC 60580600123-9. Green Giant Fresh brand, Whole YELLOW Onions packaged in 5 lb. flexible mesh bags, UPC 60580600170-3.
- UPC
- 605806001208
- Reason for recall
- Salmonella Oranienburg. Products are supplied by Keeler Family Farm.
- Recalling firm
- POTANDON PRODUCE LLC
- Firm location
- Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0183-2022
- Quantity
- Total 61,206 lbs or 359 cases (25/2 lb. pkg per case); 397 cases (16/3 lb. pkg per case); 484 cases (10/5 lb. pkg per case);
- Distribution
- distributed in MN and ND.
- Initiated
- 25 October 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 24 November 2021
- Terminated
- 8 December 2021
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot # and Julian Date on bag tag of whole YELLOW onions in 2 lbs. bag: 42543-2 RA201 42600-3 RA208 42600-3 RA209 42542-2 RA201 42542-5 RA197 42542-5 RA202 Lot # and Julian Date on bag tag of whole YELLOW onions in 3 lbs. bag: 42543-2 RA201 42543-2 RA203 42543-2 RA204 42542-5 RA202 Lot # and Julian Date on bag tag of whole YELLOW onions in 5 lbs. bag: 42543-2 RA200 42543-2 RA201 42543-2 RA202 42543-2 RA203 42543-2 RA204 42542-2 RA203 ADDITIONAL LOTS: 049008, 119008, and 149007.
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 25 October 2021 to termination on 8 December 2021. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
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 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-24 | Green Giant Fresh brand, Whole WHITE Onions packaged in 2 lb. flexible mesh bags, UPC 60580600218-2. | POTANDON PRODUCE LLC | Salmonella Oranienburg. Products are supplied by Keeler Family Farm. | Class I |
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 POTANDON PRODUCE LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 5 records for POTANDON 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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