Broccoli, Cauliflower & Carrots with Butter - 18 oz, and Broccoli & Cauliflower with…
Russ Davis Wholesale, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 November 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products are being recalled because they may have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- Broccoli, Cauliflower & Carrots with Butter - 18 oz, and Broccoli & Cauliflower with Butter - 16 oz; packaged with a small generic clear label on Q & E Steamer bag.
- Reason for recall
- Products are being recalled because they may have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Russ Davis Wholesale, Inc.
- Firm location
- Wadena, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0307-2020
- Quantity
- 1676 units
- Distribution
- The firm distributed products to foodservice establishments and retailers in IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, SD, WI, WY.
- Initiated
- 5 November 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 27 November 2019
- Terminated
- 11 June 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 18 oz - UPC 795631808148; 16 oz - UPC 795631808131. Both sizes have sell by dates of 10/13/19 to 11/08/19
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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. 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 17 of them.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 5 November 2019 to termination on 11 June 2020. 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 10 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 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
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under milk and dairy and fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 Russ Davis Wholesale, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 18 other records name this firm.
All 19 records for Russ Davis Wholesale, Inc.
All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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