Catering, Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad Small UPC 106487 and Catering, Kale and…
Whole Foods Market recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 December 2019 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- Catering, Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad Small UPC 106487 and Catering, Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad Medium UPC 160488 served in the catering menu; Taproom, Side Kale & Brussels available in the chef's case UPC 404511; Salad, Kale & Brussels 2 For 6 UPC 22215600000 available in the chef's case; Salad, Kale & Brussels Family UPC 22506700000 packaged in the store; Salad, Kale & Brussels Sprouts UPC 26431300000 and UPC 26918200000 sold on the salad bar and chef's case
- UPC
- 22215600000
- Reason for recall
- Possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Whole Foods Market
- Firm location
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0369-2020
- Quantity
- 12,898 lbs (total of all products)
- Distribution
- nationwide
- Initiated
- 4 November 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 25 December 2019
- Terminated
- 14 January 2020
- Firm notified by
- Other
- Product codes
- Sold from Oct.10.2019 through Nov. 4.2019
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 is one of 57 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 57 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 57. All 57 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 2 months, from 4 November 2019 to termination on 14 January 2020. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria contamination 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)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under fresh produce, snacks and confectionery and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 57 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 56 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
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 Whole Foods Market
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 316 other records name this firm.
All 317 records for Whole Foods Market
All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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