Wegmans Sunflower Crunch Chopped Salad Kit: Includes Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce…
Taylor Farms Retail, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 September 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared allergens in salad mix - milk and wheat. Cheese and croutons are packed separately and clearly visible to consumer.
The record
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Product
Wegmans Sunflower Crunch Chopped Salad Kit: Includes Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Sunflower Seeds, Red Cabbage, Carrot, Kale, Uncured Bacon, Green Onion with Wegmans Organic Coleslaw dressing. Washed and ready to eat. Salad and toppings: Net Wt 10.1 oz. (286 g) Dressing: Net 2.58 Fl Oz. (76 mL) Total Net Wt 12.6 oz. (357 g) UPC: 0 77890 50238 9. Distributed by Wegmans Markets Inc., Rochester, NY 14603 Allergens: Contains Eggs
UPC
077890502389
Reason for recall
Undeclared allergens in salad mix - milk and wheat. Cheese and croutons are packed separately and clearly visible to consumer.
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 13 days, from 10 August 2021 to termination on 23 August 2021. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks 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.
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
21 CFR 101.4
Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
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.
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.
Undeclared Soy. Finished product ingredients statement declares Worcestershire sauce but does not declare sub-ingredients Soy Flavoring and Soy Lecithin.
Undeclared Soy. The firm received complaints of sausage in the burritos. Upon review the firm discovered the sausage contains soy which is not listed on the label.
Trader Joes branded Southwestern Chopped Salad Kits was found to contain the incorrect master pack. The master pack includes the allergens of soy and pistachio. Soy was declared on the label, but pistachio was not.
One production lot of Creamy Homestyle Coleslaw kit was inadvertently packed with organic dressing packet which contains egg and milk. Only egg is declared on product labeling.
Canadian product only - Sensations Spinach salad kit was packed in Sensations Asian Supreme Salad kit. The spinach kit contains feta cheese and milk is not listed on the ingredient statement as the source of the cheese as required by FALCPA.
USDA collected a sample and performed random sample on Marketside Organic Baby Spinach lot code TFRS 130B16 Best of Used By 5-25-12. This product tested positive for Salmonella.
21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.
