Tapas Cocktail White Tiger Shrimp Net Wt 7oz (198g) UPC:4056489411499 Packaged in a…
Lidl US TRADING recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 March 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Tapas Cocktail White Tiger Shrimp Net Wt 7oz (198g) UPC:4056489411499 Packaged in a plastic container.
- UPC
- 4056489411499
- Reason for recall
- Possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Lidl US TRADING
- Firm location
- Arlington, Virginia, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0421-2023
- Quantity
- 17,136 units
- Distribution
- Imported product directly shipped to a warehouse in Virginia and then distributed to 3 distribution centers in North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. From the distribution center distributed to Lidl retail stores in Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.
- Initiated
- 27 February 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 22 March 2023
- Terminated
- 29 August 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- All lots
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 6 months, from 27 February 2023 to termination on 29 August 2023. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Fish and fishery products are the one food category with their own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 123, because the hazards are species-specific: histamine in scombroid fish, ciguatera in reef fish, and Listeria in cold-smoked products.
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 fish and seafood. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fish and seafood 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 Lidl US TRADING
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 19 other records name this firm.
All 20 records for Lidl US TRADING
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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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