Weight Watchers Smart Ones, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae, Keep Frozen, 4…
KRAFT HEINZ FOODS COMPANY recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 December 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination of product with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Weight Watchers Smart Ones, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae, Keep Frozen, 4 Individual Sundaes, 4-2.11 OZ (60g), NET WT. 8.44 OZ (239g)
- Reason for recall
- Possible contamination of product with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- KRAFT HEINZ FOODS COMPANY
- Firm location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0625-2017
- Quantity
- 99,492 cases
- Distribution
- Nationwide
- Initiated
- 12 November 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 14 December 2016
- Terminated
- 12 February 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot code MS5M01A, Best by 12/28/2016 ; Lot code MS5M02A, Best By 12/28/2016 ; Lot code MS5M07A, Best by 12/28/2016 ; Lot code MS5M08A, Best by 12/28/2016 ; Lot code MS6A18A, Best by 01/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6A19A, Best by 01/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6A20A, Best by 01/28/2017 ; MS6B15A, Best by 02/28/17 ; Lot code MS6B16A, Best by 02/28/17 ; Lot code MS6B17A, Best by 02/28/17 ; Lot code MS6C28A, Best by 03/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6C29A, Best by 03/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6C30A, Best by 03/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6E10A, Best by 05/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6F27A, Best by 06/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6F28A, Best by 06/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6F29A, Best by 06/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6G28A, Best by 07/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6G25, Best by 07/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6G26, Best by 07/28/2017 ; Lot code MS6G27, Best by 07/28/2017
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 15 months, from 12 November 2016 to termination on 12 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 FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer 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.
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 and snacks and confectionery. 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 KRAFT HEINZ FOODS COMPANY
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 18 other records name this firm.
All 19 records for KRAFT HEINZ FOODS 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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