Houlihan's Creamy Garlic Ranch Dressing potentially labeled as Horseradish Sauce, 1 gal…
CFS West Holdings Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 November 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. A complaint received from a customer that a case of Creamy Ranch with Garlic was mislabeled as Horseradish Sauce. The ranch dressing contains the major food allergen of milk which is not declared on the label for the horseradish sauce.
The record
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- Product
- Houlihan's Creamy Garlic Ranch Dressing potentially labeled as Horseradish Sauce, 1 gal containers Mfg. exclusively for: Houlihan's Restaurant, Inc. Leawood, KS
- Reason for recall
- A complaint received from a customer that a case of Creamy Ranch with Garlic was mislabeled as Horseradish Sauce. The ranch dressing contains the major food allergen of milk which is not declared on the label for the horseradish sauce.
- Recalling firm
- CFS West Holdings Inc
- Firm location
- New Century, Kansas, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0342-2019
- Quantity
- 293 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed to distributors in IL, MD, and MO.
- Initiated
- 2 October 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 7 November 2018
- Terminated
- 14 February 2019
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- 18221SS, 2018-12-07
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 2 October 2018 to termination on 14 February 2019. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
Named in the distribution pattern: Maryland, Missouri. 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
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
The allergens named in this record: milk.
Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 CFS West Holdings Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.
All 6 records for CFS West Holdings Inc
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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