Del Monte Quality Fresh Cut Harvest Selects Fiesta Corn seasoned with Red & Green…
Del Monte Research Center - Walnut Creek recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 January 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Record review found the several productions runs were processed using the incorrect thermal process, and therefore the potential for Clostridium botulinum.
The record
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- Product
- Del Monte Quality Fresh Cut Harvest Selects Fiesta Corn seasoned with Red & Green Peppers. NET WT 15.25 oz. (432 g); UPC 0 24000 02770; Ingredient: Vegetables (corn, red and green peppers) water, sea salt. Distributed by Del Monte Foods, Walnut Creek, CA 94598
- UPC
- 02400002770
- Reason for recall
- Record review found the several productions runs were processed using the incorrect thermal process, and therefore the potential for Clostridium botulinum.
- Recalling firm
- Del Monte Research Center - Walnut Creek
- Firm location
- Walnut Creek, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0762-2019
- Quantity
- 64,242 cases
- Distribution
- U.S. distribution to the following: AL, CA, CT FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, LA, MD, MI, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OK, PN, SC, VT, VA, WA, TX, TN, WI, AR, MO, FL, OH, MO, MN, IA, CO, AZ, AR, DE, NH, OR, UT, Foreign distribution to the following: Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, El Salvador, Haiti, Guyana, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador Uruguay, Aruba, Panama, Saint Lucia, and Suriname.
- Initiated
- 11 December 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 30 January 2019
- Terminated
- 17 April 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best if Used By dates: " August 14, 2021 " August 15, 2021 " August 16, 2021 " Sept 3, 2021 " Sept 4, 2021 " Sept 5, 2021 " Sept 6, 2021 " Sept 22, 2021 " Sept 23, 2021
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 4 months, from 11 December 2018 to termination on 17 April 2019. 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 32 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Texas, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Colorado, Arizona, Delaware, New Hampshire, Oregon, Utah. 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
Process deviation
A process deviation recall means the process ran outside its validated limits: a thermal process that did not reach its time and temperature, a pH that drifted, or a seal that failed.
A preventive controls plan covers a process deviation 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 114
- Acidified foods: the controls on equilibrium pH at or below 4.6, and the process that achieves it.
- 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.
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium botulinum recalls are recalls of the process, not of a test result: the organism produces its toxin without oxygen, so a low-acid food in a sealed container that missed its scheduled process is recalled whether or not toxin was ever found.
A preventive controls plan covers a botulism risk 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 113
- Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
- 21 CFR 108.35
- Emergency permit control: the registration and process filing a low-acid canned food processor must hold before it may operate.
Filed under nuts and seeds and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other nuts and seeds 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 Del Monte Research Center - Walnut Creek
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 4 records for Del Monte Research Center - Walnut Creek
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21 CFR 113 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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