Vegetarian Lasagna With Gluten-Free Pasta, New Seasons Market brand. Product is packaged…
New Seasons Market LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 February 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared Soy. BBQ sauce was inadvertently used instead of Marinara sauce and BBQ sauce contains soy. The Vegetarian Lasagna finished product label does not declare soy.
The record
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Product
Vegetarian Lasagna With Gluten-Free Pasta, New Seasons Market brand. Product is packaged in a grab "n" go aluminum containter with a clear dome lid, and labeled with a scale PLU label. UPC 252390 706998. The CORRECT label reads in part: "*** VEGETARIAN LASAGNA WITH GLUTEN-FREE PASTA***Filling: Marinara [crushed tomatoes***diced tomatoes***ricotta-cheese (pasteurized whey, cream and milk, vinegar, salt)***mozzarella-provolone blend***Parmesan cheese ***Gluten-free Pasta: White rice flour, pasteurized liquid whole eggs***Contains: Milk, Egg***".
UPC
252390706998
Reason for recall
Undeclared Soy. BBQ sauce was inadvertently used instead of Marinara sauce and BBQ sauce contains soy. The Vegetarian Lasagna finished product label does not declare soy.
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Product codes
Sell By Feb 06, 20 up to and including Feb 09, 20
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 13 days, from 6 February 2020 to termination on 19 February 2020. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
21 CFR 101.4
Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
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.
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.
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Cauliflower Pilaf meal kit is recalled because the Almonds container, packaged in a separate clear containers inside the kit, was mislabeled with a sticker that declares peanut.
Mini Chocolate Croissants are recalled because the Ingredients statement and Contains statement do not declare EGG. In addition, Mini Chocolate Croissants are recalled because the Contains statement does not declare SOY LECITHIN.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.
