ASK Foods Inc., KRAB SALAD, NET WT. 5 LB (2.27 kg), Plastic tub with a plastic lid,Keep…
ASK Foods Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 February 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product has the potential to contain metal pieces.
The record
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- Product
- ASK Foods Inc., KRAB SALAD, NET WT. 5 LB (2.27 kg), Plastic tub with a plastic lid,Keep Refrigerated, 2786-140
- Reason for recall
- The product has the potential to contain metal pieces.
- Recalling firm
- ASK Foods Inc
- Firm location
- Palmyra, Pennsylvania, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0565-2020
- Quantity
- 154 - 5 lb. bulk containers
- Distribution
- MD
- Initiated
- 7 January 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 5 February 2020
- Terminated
- 11 May 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Product Number 2786-140 Date code of 2242 Sell by date of 1/18/2020
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 4 months, from 7 January 2020 to termination on 11 May 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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. 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 ASK Foods Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 17 other records name this firm.
All 18 records for ASK Foods Inc
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21 CFR 117.40 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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