Rainbow Sushi Set [WR] UPC:81244803418 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters…
Mai Cuisine recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 September 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products.
The record
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- Product
- Rainbow Sushi Set [WR] UPC:81244803418 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters inside Whole Foods Market stores
- UPC
- 81244803418
- Reason for recall
- Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products.
- Recalling firm
- Mai Cuisine
- Firm location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0936-2021
- Quantity
- 1490 packages - all Genji products
- Distribution
- Northern CA only
- Initiated
- 13 August 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 8 September 2021
- Terminated
- 23 September 2021
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- The products can be identified with the Hand-Crafted date of 8/12/2021 and 8/13/2021 and Best By Date of 08/13/2021 and 08/14/2021
Reading this record
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 is one of 25 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 25 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 25. 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 25 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 13 August 2021 to termination on 23 September 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 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.
What this recall was for
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
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 Mai Cuisine
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 24 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-08 | August Box of the Month NCA UPC: 84003140261 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters inside Whole Foods Market stores | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | 12pc Shrimp Tempura Kabuki Roll WR UPC: 8 4003140626 2 Product was sold from Mai Sushi counters inside Target stores in Northern CA. | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | CHEF'S ASSORTED NIGIRI 6PC UPC: 81282401130 Product was sold from Mai Sushi counters inside New Leaf Community Market stores in Northern CA. | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | Shrimp California Roll [BR] UPC: 81244803702 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters inside Whole Foods Market stores | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | Spicy Shrimp Tempura Roll [WR] UPC: 81244803443 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters inside Whole Foods Market stores | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | SPICY SHRIMP TEMPURA ROLL UPC: 81282401109 Product was sold from Mai Sushi counters inside New Leaf Community Market stores in Northern CA. | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | BR SPECIAL ROLL SUPER SET 16PCL UPC:81282401203 Product was sold from Mai Sushi counters inside New Leaf Community Market stores in Northern CA. | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | SHRIMP MANGO FRESH ROLL UPC:81282401374 Product was sold from Mai Sushi counters inside New Leaf Community Market stores in Northern CA. | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | Spicy Shrimp Inari 4pc Kabuki [WR] UPC: 81244803408 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters inside Whole Foods Market stores | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
| 2021-09-08 | ONO SHRIMP POKE BOWL UPC:84003140699 Products were sold from Genji Sushi counters inside Whole Foods Market stores | Mai Cuisine | Recall initiated after notification from supplier of recall of frozen shrimp due to Salmonella contamination that had been used in sushi products. | Class II |
All 25 records for Mai Cuisine
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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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