Class ITerminated · reported 2023-12-27

HMC Farms White Nectarines 4lb box

The HMC Group Marketing Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 December 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes

The record

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Product: HMC Farms White Nectarines 4lb box
Reason for recall: Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes
Recalling firm: The HMC Group Marketing Inc
Firm location: Kingsburg, California, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-0652-2024
Quantity: not available
Distribution: U.S. distribution to the following: CA, OR, MA, PA, AK, WA, CO, UT, TN, MO, IL, MN, VA, KS, NC, TX, AZ, GA, OH, NY, NJ, ID, WI, FL, SC, AL, NV Foreign distribution to the following: Mexico, Canada, and Taiwan
Initiated: 17 November 2023
Reported by FDA: 27 December 2023
Terminated: 26 April 2024
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: UPC #788814643063

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 11 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 11 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 11. 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 11 of them.
The recall ran for 5 months, from 17 November 2023 to termination on 26 April 2024. 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 25 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 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: Oregon, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Alaska, Washington, Colorado, Utah, Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Virginia, Kansas, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Idaho, Wisconsin, Florida, South Carolina, Alabama. 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

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.

Other records from The HMC Group Marketing Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 10 other records name this firm.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Nectarines 2lb Gusset Bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Peaches 2lb Gusset Bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms White Nectarines 2lb Gusset Bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms White Peaches 4lb box	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Nectarines 4lb bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Nectarines Signature Farms 2lb bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Peaches 4lb box	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Plums 2lb Gusset Bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms White Peaches 2lb Gusset Bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-12-27	HMC Farms Peaches Signature Farms 2lb bag	The HMC Group Marketing Inc	Potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes	Class I

All 11 records for The HMC Group Marketing Inc

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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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