White Corn Hominy, Pozole To The People, packaged in glass jars. Net Wt. 16 fl.
Proxy Foods LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 April 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Missing processing records/production logs.
The record
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- Product
- White Corn Hominy, Pozole To The People, packaged in glass jars. Net Wt. 16 fl. oz., (473.2 mL). UPC 738283379147. The label is read in parts: "***WHITE CORN HOMINY ***INGREDIENTS: Water, White Corn Hominy, Sea Salt, Lime Juice ***Made by Proxy Foods, LLC 7328 SE Foster Road, Portland, OR ***.
- UPC
- 738283379147
- Reason for recall
- Missing processing records/production logs.
- Recalling firm
- Proxy Foods LLC
- Firm location
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0850-2020
- Quantity
- 96 units
- Distribution
- distributed in Oregon and Washington.
- Initiated
- 25 February 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 1 April 2020
- Terminated
- 29 May 2020
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- All lot codes
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 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 3 months, from 25 February 2020 to termination on 29 May 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Spices are a low-moisture, globally sourced, minimally processed ingredient that is added after any kill step, which is the combination that makes Salmonella in a spice lot capable of contaminating every product it was blended into.
Filed under spices and seasonings and beverages and juice. A product can sit in more than one.
Other spices and seasonings recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Proxy Foods LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 3 records for Proxy Foods LLC
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