Sweet 2 Eat White Peaches; California Tree Fruit; Product of USA: Brand names: Sweet 2…
Wawona Packing Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 December 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Certain lots of whole peaches (white and yellow), nectarines (white and yellow), plums and pluots packed between June 2 and July 12, 2014 may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Sweet 2 Eat White Peaches; California Tree Fruit; Product of USA: Brand names: Sweet 2 Eat, Orchard Perfect, Trader Joe's, Sam's, Mrs. Smittcamp's, Harvest Sweet, Wawona, Costco, Sweet O. Packed in the following configurations: 4-4.5 lb. box BJ's 4 lb Clamshell Costco 5 lb box. Sam's Club consumer box - 4 lbs (Summer Flame) Sticker information - Sweet 2 Eat: 94041 Org TR WF Peach 4401 - White Peach Varieties include: Autumn Snow, ice Princess, Ivory Dutchess, Ivory Queen, Late White Delight, September Snow, Sierra Snow, Snow Angel, Snow Blaze, Snow Gem, Snow Giant, Snow King, Snow Lady, Snow Princess, Summer Sweet, White Delight. Wawona Packing Cutler, CA.
- Reason for recall
- Certain lots of whole peaches (white and yellow), nectarines (white and yellow), plums and pluots packed between June 2 and July 12, 2014 may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Wawona Packing Company
- Firm location
- Cutler, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0617-2015
- Quantity
- 2.2 millions boxestotal all fruits (20 lbs per box;) estimated since 6-2014
- Distribution
- Worldwide distribution including Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Australia, India, Mexico, Philippines, Brazil, Hong Kong, Ecuador and Manila
- Initiated
- 18 July 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 17 December 2014
- Terminated
- 2 March 2015
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Item 4401 - 3099608; 00895009002250; Item 94401 -3098841; 00895009002243; 4-4.5 lb box UPC 033383 32372 5: BJ's 4-4.5 clamshell UPC 0 33383 32216 2; Sam's club 4 lb carton UPC 8 49315 00028 8; Costco Consumer Box 5 lbs UPC 8 4931589407 8;
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 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 months, from 18 July 2014 to termination on 2 March 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 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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
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 fresh produce and fish and seafood. 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 Wawona Packing Company
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.
All 6 records for Wawona Packing Company
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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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