Chicken of the Sea Genova Meal Kit; Kits include dry whole wheat pasta, dried basil and…
Chicken of the Sea; Thai Union recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 August 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Promotional Genova Meal Kits included products prepared in home kitchen that did not meet quality standards.
The record
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Product
Chicken of the Sea Genova Meal Kit; Kits include dry whole wheat pasta, dried basil and parsley, 2 cans of Genova Tuna, pesto, Kalamata olives, sundried tomatoes, dates.
Reason for recall
Promotional Genova Meal Kits included products prepared in home kitchen that did not meet quality standards.
California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, New York, Texas, Washington, and Wisconsin.
Initiated
30 June 2021
Reported by FDA
25 August 2021
Terminated
12 January 2022
Firm notified by
Telephone
Product codes
No 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
The recall ran for 6 months, from 30 June 2021 to termination on 12 January 2022. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.
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.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
