Cantaloupe Chunks/Spears: Cantaloupe Chunks 1" 50/2 oz. Packaged in film UPC…
TGD Cuts, LLC 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 Salmonella Contamination
The record
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Product
Cantaloupe Chunks/Spears: Cantaloupe Chunks 1" 50/2 oz. Packaged in film UPC: 840219184845 Cantaloupe Chunks 1" 2/5 lb. Packaged in trays. UPC: 840219184449 Cantaloupe Chunks 6/16oz. Packaged in clamshell containers. UPC: 840219150345 Cantaloupe Chunks 50/2 oz. Packaged in film. UPC: 840219186030 Cantaloupe Chunks 4/2.5 lb. Packaged in trays. UPC: 840219185231 Cantaloupe Chunks 20 lb. Packaged in buckets. UPC: 840219170190 Cantaloupe Chunks 3/30 oz. Packaged in clamshell containers. UPC: 840219150338 Cantaloupe Chunks 5 lb. Packaged in trays. UPC: 840219134499 Cantaloupe Chunks 2/5 lb. Packaged in trays. UPC: 840219196701 Cantaloupe Chunks 4/6 oz. Packaged in clamshell containers. UPC: 840219198569 Cantaloupe Chunks 6/9 oz. Packaged in clamshell containers. UPC: 840219165196 Cantaloupe Spears 6/16 oz. Packaged in clamshell containers. UPC: 840219163697 Cantaloupe Spears 100/2 oz. Packaged in film. UPC:840219172088 Cantaloupe Spears 50/2 oz. Packaged in film UPC:840219179452 Cantaloupe Spears 50/4 oz. Packaged in film. UPC: 840219138756
Distributed in PA, NJ, MD, WV, SC VA, DE, NC, and NY
Initiated
29 November 2023
Reported by FDA
27 December 2023
Terminated
25 September 2024
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
Use By Start Dates: 11/7/2023, 23300, 11/2/2023, 23296, 11/3/2023, 11/14/2023 Use by End Dates:11/7/2023, 23314, 11/23/2023, 11/21/2023, 23317, 11/24/2023, 11/21/2023
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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. All 15 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 10 months, from 29 November 2023 to termination on 25 September 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 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual 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.
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.
The FDA opened 15 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 14 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
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.
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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
