Dakota Tom's and Market Fresh branded Chicken Salad Croissant sandwiches. Net Wt.
Dakota Tom's, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 December 2021 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Sandwiches contain undeclared egg and milk.
The record
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- Product
- Dakota Tom's and Market Fresh branded Chicken Salad Croissant sandwiches. Net Wt. 6.5 oz. UPC 37296-10100, Dakota Toms, Box 271, Corsica, SD 57328.
- UPC
- 3729610100
- Reason for recall
- Sandwiches contain undeclared egg and milk.
- Recalling firm
- Dakota Tom's, Inc
- Firm location
- Corsica, South Dakota, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0350-2022
- Quantity
- 2000 sandwiches
- Distribution
- IA, MN, ND, SD
- Initiated
- 7 December 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 29 December 2021
- Terminated
- 22 April 2025
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Sandwiches dated 12/7/2021 thru 1/12/2022
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class 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 3.4 years, from 7 December 2021 to termination on 22 April 2025. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks 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: Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota. 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, eggs.
Filed under fresh produce, meat and poultry, bakery and prepared meals and sandwiches. 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 Dakota Tom's, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-06 | The Gambler, Dakota Toms brand, Net Wt 7.8 oz, individual pre-packaged components in MEP packaging, UPC 737296601788 | Dakota Tom's, Inc | Potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination | Class I |
| 2024-11-06 | Pepperjack Cheese Burger, Dakota Toms brand, Net Wt 5.7 oz, individual pre-packaged components in MEP packaging, UPC 737296806008 | Dakota Tom's, Inc | Potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination | Class I |
| 2024-11-06 | Bacon Cheeseburger , Dakota Toms brand, Net Wt 5.7 oz, individual pre-packaged components in MEP packaging, UPC 737296803007 | Dakota Tom's, Inc | Potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination | Class I |
All 4 records for Dakota Tom's, 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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