Clover seed in 55 lb. multi-layered white paper bags, 40 bags to a pallet.
International Sprout Holding Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 April 2020 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination with E. Coli.
The record
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- Product
- Clover seed in 55 lb. multi-layered white paper bags, 40 bags to a pallet.
- Reason for recall
- Possible contamination with E. Coli.
- Recalling firm
- International Sprout Holding Inc.
- Firm location
- Cookeville, Tennessee, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0887-2020
- Quantity
- 13,455 lbs.
- Distribution
- Product was distributed to the following states: AK, CA, FL HI, IA, IL, MA, MD, MI, MN, NE, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, UT, & WI. Product was distributed to the following territories: Puerto Rico and Bermuda Product was distributed to the following country: Costa Rica and Canada.
- Initiated
- 30 December 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 1 April 2020
- Terminated
- 1 July 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Part number: SCL2N-9AX
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 30 December 2019 to termination on 1 July 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 distribution pattern names 14 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah. 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
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli 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)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-04-01 | Clover seed in 50 lb. woven poly bags, 40 bags to a pallet. | International Sprout Holding Inc. | Possible contamination with E. Coli. | Class I |
Other records from International Sprout Holding Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.
All 7 records for International Sprout Holding Inc.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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