HEB Shrimp Salad SS and FS By Lb; HEB Shrimp Salad 8 oz
H E B recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 23 December 2015 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue.
The record
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- Product
- HEB Shrimp Salad SS and FS By Lb; HEB Shrimp Salad 8 oz
- Reason for recall
- Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue.
- Recalling firm
- H E B
- Firm location
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0271-2016
- Quantity
- 528 units
- Distribution
- Texas
- Initiated
- 18 September 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 23 December 2015
- Terminated
- 2 August 2016
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- 26507900000 and 26900400000 and 26506400000
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 18 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 18 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 18. 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 18 of them.
- The recall ran for 10 months, from 18 September 2015 to termination on 2 August 2016. 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 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.
What this recall was for
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under fresh produce and fish and seafood. 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.
Other records from H E B
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 17 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-12-23 | HEB Herb Seared Salmon, Broccoli, Rice SS | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | HEB Herb Seared Salmon Herb SS and FS; Houston Culinary Center Herb Seared Salmon | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | Combo Meal Tuna Salad SS | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | Houston Culinary Center Penne Mozzarella Salad Kit | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | HEB Sis Greek Pasta Cuc Feta Kal | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | Pizza artichoke chicken 12 in Hot and Cold | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | Houston Culinary Center Shrimp Salad Kit | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | Houston Culinary Center Cranberry Turkey Salad Base | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | HCC Salad Tuna Classic Yellowfin SS | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
| 2015-12-23 | HCC Greek Pasta Salad Small SS and FS | H E B | Use of ingredient with violative pesticide residue. | Class III |
All 2015 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.35(b) 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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