Macadamia nuts in various formats: (1.) Western Family Macadamia Diced Nuts, Net Wt 5…
Marathon Ventures Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 December 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Macadamia nuts may have possible contamination with Salmonella florida.
The record
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- Product
- Macadamia nuts in various formats: (1.) Western Family Macadamia Diced Nuts, Net Wt 5 oz. plastic bags Distributed by:Western Family Foods, Inc. Portland, OR UPC 0 15400 16635 5 (2.) Shur Fine Macadamia Diced Nuts, Net Wt 5 oz. plastic bags. Distributed by:Western Family Foods, Inc. Portland, OR UPC 0 15400 86635 4 (3.) HyVee Macadamia Nuts, Net Wt 2 oz. plastic bags. Distributed by:Hy-Vee Inc, West Des Moines Iowa, UPC 0 75450 13287 815400 16635 (4.) market pantry Chopped Macadamia Nuts, Net Wt 2.25 oz. plastic bags. Distributed by:Target Corp., MN, UPC 0 85239 52108 3 (5.) Pears Gourmet Macadamia Nuts Raw, Net Wt 1 LB, plastic bags with gold adhesive label. Distributed by:Marathon Ventures, Bellevue, NE UPC 0 75049 42186 4 (6.) CWD Cash-Wa Distributing, Co. Macadamia Nuts Raw, Net Wt 5 LBS, Distributed by:Cash-Wa Distributing, Co, Kearney, North Platte and Sidney, NE (7.) Macadamia Nuts Raw, Net Wt 5 LBS, Distributed by:Pegler Sysco, Lincoln, NE (8.) Bulk Case Mayan Gold Macadamia Nuts Style #5, Net Wt 25 LBS, Distributed by:Marathon Ventures, Bellevue, NE.
- UPC
- 015400166355
- Reason for recall
- Macadamia nuts may have possible contamination with Salmonella florida.
- Recalling firm
- Marathon Ventures Inc
- Firm location
- Bellevue, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0589-2015
- Quantity
- 5200 pounds
- Distribution
- Product was distributed nationwide.
- Initiated
- 28 October 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 3 December 2014
- Terminated
- 27 August 2015
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Macadamia nuts in various formats: (1.) "Western Family" Best by Dates: 11MAR2014, 23JUN2014, 11AUG2015 and 6OCT2015 (2.) "Shur Fine" Best by Dates: 11MAR2015, 23JUN2015 and 11AUG2015 (3.) "HyVee" Best by Dates: 27AUG2015, 28AUG2015 and 10OCT2015 (4.) "market pantry" Best by Dates: 28APR2015, 1MAY2015, 28MAY2015, 1JUL2015, 23JUL2015, 21AUG2015 and 16OCT2015 (5.) "Pears Gourmet" Best by Date: 23JUL2015 (6.) "CWD Cash-Wa Distributing, Co." , 14170 and 14261 (7.) "Pegler Sysco", 14052, 14094, 14128, 14181 and 14267 (8.) Bulk Case "Mayan Gold", SDC 0034
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 10 months, from 28 October 2014 to termination on 27 August 2015. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.
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.
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Other nuts and seeds recalls for the same reason
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Other records from Marathon Ventures 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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