Diced Yellow Onion, Net Wt. 6oz, 8oz, 10oz, 16oz, 4/3 lb and 40oz, in clear plastic…
Country Fresh Products, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 January 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
Product
Diced Yellow Onion, Net Wt. 6oz, 8oz, 10oz, 16oz, 4/3 lb and 40oz, in clear plastic containers (sold under the Bi-Lo, Harris Teeter, Quik Trip The Spinx and Winn Dixie brand).
Reason for recall
Products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA and WV.
Initiated
25 August 2016
Reported by FDA
11 January 2017
Terminated
23 January 2017
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
BEST IF USED BY dates between August 11, 2016 through August 17, 2016.
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 22 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 22 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 22. All 22 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 5 months, from 25 August 2016 to termination on 23 January 2017. 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 12 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 22 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 21 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.
Products may 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.
