Cucumber, sliced 3/8", product is packaged in a 2 lbs. plastic bag and placed in a…
Triple B Corporation recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 November 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Cucumber, sliced 3/8", is recalled due to a potential contamination with Salmonella. Sliced cucumber is linked to the current recall of Limited Edition Brand Cucumbers being conducted by Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce.
The record
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Product
Cucumber, sliced 3/8", product is packaged in a 2 lbs. plastic bag and placed in a cardboard box. Product is sold to deli department at retail store and it is not sold directly to consumers. The UPC is 0 45009 10104 4.
Reason for recall
Cucumber, sliced 3/8", is recalled due to a potential contamination with Salmonella. Sliced cucumber is linked to the current recall of Limited Edition Brand Cucumbers being conducted by Andrew & Williamson Fresh Produce.
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Product codes
GTIN# 1 0045009 10104 1, Use By dates include 8/8/15 and up to 9/11/15.
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 4 months, from 4 September 2015 to termination on 22 December 2015. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 months 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.
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.
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.
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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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
