Icybay Brand Frog Legs, 4/6 Ct / Lb Farm Raised Trimmed, Frozen. 30 lb.
Slade Gorton & Company, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 November 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Unapproved antibiotics-Nitrofurans and Chloramphenicol present
The record
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- Product
- Icybay Brand Frog Legs, 4/6 Ct / Lb Farm Raised Trimmed, Frozen. 30 lb. Master Carton (5 lb. inner boxes 6 boxes per master case) UPC Codes: 073129282770
- Reason for recall
- Unapproved antibiotics-Nitrofurans and Chloramphenicol present
- Recalling firm
- Slade Gorton & Company, Inc.
- Firm location
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0368-2018
- Quantity
- 882 cases (30 lb case)
- Distribution
- AL, AZ, FL, IL, KY, MI, MN, NY, OK, TN, WI
- Initiated
- 12 October 2017
- Reported by FDA
- 29 November 2017
- Terminated
- 27 March 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- PC # 28277 PO # 256476
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 17 months, from 12 October 2017 to termination on 27 March 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 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wisconsin. 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
Unapproved ingredients
An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.
A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient 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 111
- Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
- 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.
Other records from Slade Gorton & Company, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.
All 7 records for Slade Gorton & Company, Inc.
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21 CFR 111 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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