Item #140804, Egg Salad Croissant Sandwich, Refrigerated, packaged in clear plastic…
Taylor Farms Northwest, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 March 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared Soy Lecithin. Croissant contains Margarine (Soy Lecithin) but finished Croissant sandwich product label does not declare Soy Lecithin.
The record
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- Product
- Item #140804, Egg Salad Croissant Sandwich, Refrigerated, packaged in clear plastic clamshell container. Ready to Eat product sold in foodservice, retail, and deli stores. Net wt. 6.6 OZ (187g). UPC 0 30223 10915 0. The label is read in parts: "***Egg Salad Croissant Sandwich***INGREDIENTS *** EGG SALAD***BUTTER CROISSANT (ENRICHED FLOUR [WHEAT FLOUR, MALTED BARLEY FLOUR, NIACIN, IRON, THIAMIN MONONITRATE, RIBOFLAVIN, FOLIC ACID], WATER, BUTTER, SUGAR, YEAST, SALT, WHEY, MODIFIED CORN STARCH, ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR, CALCIUM PROPIONATE, CALCIUM SULFATE, ASCORBIC ACID, ENZYMES, CALCIUM PHOSPHATE)*** CONTAINS: EGG, WHEAT, MILK*** DISTRIBUTED BY TAYLOR FARMS NW KENT, WA.
- UPC
- 030223109150
- Reason for recall
- Undeclared Soy Lecithin. Croissant contains Margarine (Soy Lecithin) but finished Croissant sandwich product label does not declare Soy Lecithin.
- Recalling firm
- Taylor Farms Northwest, LLC
- Firm location
- Kent, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0349-2021
- Quantity
- 701 units
- Distribution
- Distributed in ID, OR and WA.
- Initiated
- 26 February 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 31 March 2021
- Terminated
- 24 March 2021
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Sell by: 2/27/2021, 2/28/2021, and 3/1/2021
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
- The recall ran for 4 weeks, from 26 February 2021 to termination on 24 March 2021. 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 milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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: Oregon, Washington. 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: soy.
Filed under milk and dairy, fresh produce, fish and seafood, bakery, spices and seasonings, grains, flour and pasta, prepared meals and sandwiches and eggs. 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 Taylor Farms Northwest, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.
All 9 records for Taylor Farms Northwest, LLC
All 2021 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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