Amy's Kitchen gluten Free Vegetable Lasagna, UK Microwave or oven bake - keep frozen…
Amys Kitchen Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 April 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential metal contamination in one lot of frozen lasagna.
The record
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Product
Amy's Kitchen gluten Free Vegetable Lasagna, UK Microwave or oven bake - keep frozen Item # 000374, UPC 0 042272 003747 net weight 255g Amy's Kitchen Bedford MK
UPC
0042272003747
Reason for recall
Potential metal contamination in one lot of frozen lasagna.
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 2 months, from 20 March 2020 to termination on 19 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 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
21 CFR 117.80(c)
Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
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.
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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.
Metal fragments in bread. The firm discovered metal fragments in various bread products. They determined the cause to be roasted tomatoes provided by one of their ingredient suppliers.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
21 CFR 117.40 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.
