4 GL PAIL SFF CANTALOUPE CHUNKS, UPC 4294710419; 4/1 GL Case Cantaloupe Chunks UPC…
Simply Fresh Fruit recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- 4 GL PAIL SFF CANTALOUPE CHUNKS, UPC 4294710419; 4/1 GL Case Cantaloupe Chunks UPC 4294740119
- UPC
- 4294710419
- Reason for recall
- Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Simply Fresh Fruit
- Firm location
- Vernon, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0882-2017
- Quantity
- 28 pails; 8 cases
- Distribution
- Nationwide in US: AL, AZ, CA , CO, FL, GA, LA, MI, ND, OH, SC, TN, UT, VA
- Initiated
- 14 April 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 28 December 2016
- Terminated
- 27 December 2016
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- 4/19/2016 and 4/20/2016
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 26 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 26 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 26. 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 26 of them.
- The recall ran for 8 months, from 14 April 2016 to termination on 27 December 2016. 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 13 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 months 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, 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
Listeria monocytogenes
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.
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.
Other records from Simply Fresh Fruit
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 25 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-12-28 | 2/1 GL JAR SYSCO IMP. SPRING MIX | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 1 GL PAIL SYSCO FRUIT MIX - LS, UPC 47486540223 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 1 GL CVF CANTALOUPE CHUNKS - LS, UPC 50758108449775; | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 1 GL PAIL SYSCO CANTALOUPE CHUNKS - LS, UPC 7486548718 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 1 GL PAIL SYSCO IMP. CANTALOUPE/GRAPE JUICE, UPC 7486562450 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 4 GL PAIL FRUIT MIX-SMALL CUT, UPC 4294710455 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 2 GL PAIL SYSCO IMP. FRUIT MIX W/GRAPE JUICE, UPC 7486563430 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 1 GL JAR SFF CANTALOUPE CHUNKS - Light Syrup, UPC 4294700119 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 1 GL PAIL SFF CANTALOUPE DICED 1", UPC 4210119 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
| 2016-12-28 | 4/1 GL SYSCO IMP FRUIT MIX, UPC 10074865435236 | Simply Fresh Fruit | Simply Fresh Fruit is recalling cantaloupe and fruit mixes with cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class I |
All 26 records for Simply Fresh Fruit
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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.
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