Savannah Classics Classic Bread Stuffing packaged in 4.5lb trays
Savannah Food Company, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 January 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- Savannah Classics Classic Bread Stuffing packaged in 4.5lb trays
- Reason for recall
- Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Savannah Food Company, Inc.
- Firm location
- Savannah, Tennessee, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0557-2020
- Quantity
- 83 cases 4 4.5lb trays per case
- Distribution
- Products distributed to the following states: TN, AL, TX, MS, SC, NC, FL, GA, AR
- Initiated
- 30 December 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 29 January 2020
- Terminated
- 18 February 2020
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Lot #(s) 1014191893 Product # 38025 Use By 10/2021
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 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. 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 6 of them.
- The recall ran for 7 weeks, from 30 December 2019 to termination on 18 February 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 distribution pattern names 8 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Arkansas. 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
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 bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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 Savannah Food Company, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-01-29 | Morrison's cornbread dressing packaged in 7lb trays | Savannah Food Company, Inc. | Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes | Class II |
| 2020-01-29 | Morrison's cornbread dressing packaged in 4lb tray | Savannah Food Company, Inc. | Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes | Class II |
| 2020-01-29 | Piccadilly Cornbread Dressing in 2# trays | Savannah Food Company, Inc. | Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes | Class II |
| 2020-01-29 | Savannah Classics Classic Cornbread Dressing packaged in 7lb trays | Savannah Food Company, Inc. | Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes | Class II |
| 2020-01-29 | Savannah Classics Special Cornbread Dressing packaged in 7lb trays | Savannah Food Company, Inc. | Eggs used in the manufacture of the products may be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes | Class II |
All 6 records for Savannah Food Company, Inc.
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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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