Frozen Organic Strawberries, Kirkland Signature, frozen, net wt. 4lb., 9 packages per…
Scenic Fruit Company, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 April 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential to be contaminated with hepatitis A.
The record
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- Product
- Frozen Organic Strawberries, Kirkland Signature, frozen, net wt. 4lb., 9 packages per case, Costco Item 904984. UPC 096619140404. Distributed by Costco Warehouse Corporation, Seattle, WA. Product of Mexico.
- UPC
- 096619140404
- Reason for recall
- Potential to be contaminated with hepatitis A.
- Recalling firm
- Scenic Fruit Company, LLC
- Firm location
- Gresham, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0703-2023
- Quantity
- Lot# 81991281 = 1050 cases (9/4lb. bags per case); Lot# 81992281 = 2189 cases (9/4lb. bags per case)
- Distribution
- Kirkland Signature: distributed in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, and Washington. Trader Joe's: distribute nationwide. Simply Nature: distributed in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Vital Choice: distributed in Washington. PCC Community Markets: distributed in Washington. Made With: distributed in Illinois, Maryland. Cadia 5 lbs. packages: distributed in Indiana, Maryland, and Oregon. Scenic/Splendor 30 lbs. cases: distributed in California.
- Initiated
- 16 March 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 19 April 2023
- Terminated
- 29 September 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best By 10/08/2024. Lot # V1090900 B1991 D 281. Lot # V1090900 B1992 D 281. V1090900= Scenic Vendor Number (Costco)
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 16 March 2023 to termination on 29 September 2023. 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 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
Viral and parasitic contamination
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic 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 117.10
- Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
- 21 CFR 112
- Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
- 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.
Filed under fresh produce. 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 Scenic Fruit Company, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 5 records for Scenic Fruit Company, LLC
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21 CFR 117.10 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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