Cittero Mortadella, packaged in deli bags. This is a deli service item.
Bj Wholesale Club recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 April 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains undeclared tree nuts (pistachios).
The record
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- Product
- Cittero Mortadella, packaged in deli bags. This is a deli service item.
- Reason for recall
- Product contains undeclared tree nuts (pistachios).
- Recalling firm
- Bj Wholesale Club
- Firm location
- Westborough, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0926-2016
- Quantity
- 300 cases
- Distribution
- BJs locations in Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia
- Initiated
- 5 February 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 13 April 2016
- Terminated
- 24 January 2017
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Deli items sold from 1/20/16 to 2/3/16 at the 71 affected clubs (see distribution list).
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 71 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 71 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 71. 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 71 of them.
- The recall ran for 12 months, from 5 February 2016 to termination on 24 January 2017. 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 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer 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.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
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.
The allergens named in this record: tree nuts.
Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
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.
Other records from Bj Wholesale Club
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 70 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-04-13 | ITALIAN SANDWICH RING. This is a deli service item | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | APPLEGATE HAM BLACK FOREST, packaged in deli bag. This is a deli service item. | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | DAK HAM, sold in a deli bag. This is a deli service item | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | D&W Black Pepper Turkey, packaged in deli bag. This is a deli service item. | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | CITTERIO CHORIZO, sold in a deli bag. This is a deli service item | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | D&W Black Forest Turkey, packaged in deli bag. This is a deli service item. | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | ITALIAN MEAT PLATTER. This is a deli service item | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | WF Sandwich Ring substitute Roast Beef. This is a deli service item | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | D&W BUFFALO CHICKEN, packaged in deli bag. This is a deli service item. | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
| 2016-04-13 | D&W BBQ CHICKEN, packaged in deli bag. This is a deli service item. | Bj Wholesale Club | Product may have been sliced on the same equipment where the mortadella with pistachios was sliced. | Class II |
All 71 records for Bj Wholesale Club
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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.
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