SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELIGHT sold under the following labels: 1) Wegmans square tub…
First Source Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 December 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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Product
SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELIGHT sold under the following labels: 1) Wegmans square tub SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELIGHT, 20 oz, shipped 12 packs per case, 2) 15 LBS ALPINE VALLEY SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELIGHT, shipped 1 per case, 3) SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELITE, NET WT 4.5 OZ (127g) shipped 6 packs per case, 4) SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELIGHT, NET WT 20 OZ (1 LB 4 OZ) 566 g, 5) STEWART'S SUNSHINE CRANBERRY DELITE, NET WT 5 oz (141g), shipped 18 packs per case, 6) Cranberry Almond Trail Mix, NET WT 13 OZ (368g), packed 12 per case
Reason for recall
Product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
IN, LA, MA, MD, MI, NJ, NY, PA,VA, WV & SC via retail stores
Initiated
23 May 2016
Reported by FDA
21 December 2016
Terminated
14 June 2018
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
1) BEST BY 12/15/16, 1/7/17 & 2/9/17 2) Lot Code BD 161021 and BD 161261 3) BEST BY 2/10/17 4) BEST IF SOLD BY: JAN 18 17 5) BEST BY 02/28/17 6) BEST BY 03/04/16-02/28/17
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 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. All 10 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 2.1 years, from 23 May 2016 to termination on 14 June 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 distribution pattern names 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 months 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.
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.
The FDA opened 10 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 9 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.
Product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes
Class I
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.
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.
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.
