Coconut Tree Brand Shredded Coconut; frozen Dua Bao; Net WT. 16 oz. (454 g); Product of…
Evershing International Trading Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 January 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. State of Massachusetts tested product and found it to be positive for Salmonella
The record
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- Product
- Coconut Tree Brand Shredded Coconut; frozen Dua Bao; Net WT. 16 oz. (454 g); Product of Vietnam; UPC 05216-44081 Ingredient: Coconut Manufactured by: Lucky Shing Co., LTD 108/1 Road No. 830, Hamlet No. 3 An Thanh Village, Ben Luc District Long An Province, Vietnam.
- UPC
- 0521644081
- Reason for recall
- State of Massachusetts tested product and found it to be positive for Salmonella
- Recalling firm
- Evershing International Trading Inc.
- Firm location
- San Jose, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0567-2018
- Quantity
- 4377 cases (40 x 16 oz. bags per case)
- Distribution
- CA, IL, CO, TX, WA, MA, FL, PA, WA, OR, OH,
- Initiated
- 2 January 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 24 January 2018
- Terminated
- 28 February 2018
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- All lots, item number 331233 Affected lot number is SE07A1; however that number is only on the outer case and not on individual bags.
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 8 weeks, from 2 January 2018 to termination on 28 February 2018. 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 10 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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: California, Illinois, Colorado, Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, Florida, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Ohio. 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
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Other records from Evershing International Trading Inc.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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