FourStar Pizza & Subs, Pizza Dough Premix, Manufactured by Pizza Blends, Inc.
Pizza Blends, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 February 2019 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm received an ingredient from their supplier that is potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
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- Product
- FourStar Pizza & Subs, Pizza Dough Premix, Manufactured by Pizza Blends, Inc. San Antonio, TX. packaged in 26 lb bags.
- Reason for recall
- The firm received an ingredient from their supplier that is potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
- Recalling firm
- Pizza Blends, LLC
- Firm location
- North Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0785-2019
- Quantity
- 1,680 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed to customers in AR, CO, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MN, MO, ND, NJ, ON, PA, SC, TX, and VA
- Initiated
- 7 January 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 13 February 2019
- Terminated
- 8 February 2019
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- PROD: Nov 17 18, PROD: Dec 26 18, PROD: Dec 27 18
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. 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 10 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 weeks, from 7 January 2019 to termination on 8 February 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 17 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
Named in the distribution pattern: Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia. 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
Salmonella
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.
Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 Pizza Blends, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.
All 10 records for Pizza Blends, LLC
All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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.
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