One Degree Organic Foods Gluten Free Sprouted Rolled Oats NET WT. 5 lbs (80 oz) 2.27 kg…
One Degree Organic Foods Inc, recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 March 2021 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Rancidity and packaging integrity defects in GF sprouted rolled oats
The record
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- Product
- One Degree Organic Foods Gluten Free Sprouted Rolled Oats NET WT. 5 lbs (80 oz) 2.27 kg UPC:6 75625 32318 8
- UPC
- 675625323188
- Reason for recall
- Rancidity and packaging integrity defects in GF sprouted rolled oats
- Recalling firm
- One Degree Organic Foods Inc,
- Firm location
- Abbotsford, Canada
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0332-2021
- Quantity
- 448,720 packages
- Distribution
- Distributed to Costco retail locations in WA, CA, AZ, UT, TX, IL, MI, NJ, MD, GA, FL
- Initiated
- 15 January 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 17 March 2021
- Terminated
- 7 March 2022
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- All Best By dates up to and including MAR 15,2022
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 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 15 January 2021 to termination on 7 March 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 10 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Arizona, Utah, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Maryland, Georgia, Florida. 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
Spoilage and mould
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage 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 117.93
- Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
- 21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
- Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
Filed under fresh produce and grains, flour and pasta. 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 2021 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.93 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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