Abbott Similac Organic 7oz. can. 6 cans per case. Abbott Similac Organic with A2 Milk…
Abbott Laboratories recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 March 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Consumer complaints related to Cronobacter sakazakii or Salmonella Newport in infants and evidence of Cronobacter sakazakii in the manufacturing facility where the product had been produced
The record
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- Product
- Abbott Similac Organic 7oz. can. 6 cans per case. Abbott Similac Organic with A2 Milk Infant Formula with Iron 20.6oz. plastic jar. 4 jars per case. 23.2oz plastic jar. 6 jars per case. Item numbers: 68013 68092 5082178 Retail UPCs: 070074680156 070074680934 070074508221
- Reason for recall
- Consumer complaints related to Cronobacter sakazakii or Salmonella Newport in infants and evidence of Cronobacter sakazakii in the manufacturing facility where the product had been produced
- Recalling firm
- Abbott Laboratories
- Firm location
- Abbott Park, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-0945-2022
- Quantity
- 52663 cases
- Distribution
- US Nationwide. Worldwide.
- Initiated
- 17 February 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 16 March 2022
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Batches: 24397K800 27994SH00 27995SH00 24400SH00
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 41 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 41 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 41. 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 41 of them.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Infant formula is the most tightly regulated food in the United States because it is frequently the only thing an infant eats, so a nutrient deviation is a hazard in a way it is not in any other product.
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 infant formula and baby food and milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.
Other infant formula and baby food 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 Abbott Laboratories
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 60 other records name this firm.
All 61 records for Abbott Laboratories
All 2022 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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