Fresh Organic Freezer Strawberries Mexico with calyx (caps) removed, net wt.
Cascade International Foods, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 June 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
The record
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- Product
- Fresh Organic Freezer Strawberries Mexico with calyx (caps) removed, net wt. 18 lbs., packaged in a T60-800 Polyethylene Homopolymer picking tray. Product is imported and distributed in fresh condition by Cascade International Foods.
- Reason for recall
- Potential contamination with Hepatitis A.
- Recalling firm
- Cascade International Foods, Inc
- Firm location
- Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0984-2023
- Quantity
- total 35,686 lbs.
- Distribution
- distributed in CA and OR.
- Initiated
- 25 May 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 21 June 2023
- Terminated
- 3 January 2024
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Lot codes: 030122-50029 030222-50029 030822-50029 030922-50029 031122-50029 The code Interpretation: 030122 (MMDDYY): Date code of when fruit was picked. 50029: Cascade's internal code for ranch identifying number. Load Shipment Numbers (Load shipment number is a sequential chronological order and is made up of the Product Lot Numbers. Load Shipment Number indicates the Cascade as the importer, number of the container imported into USA and year): CIM 125-22 CIM 129-22 CIM 130-22 CIM 144-22 CIM 146-22 CIM 147-22
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 25 May 2023 to termination on 3 January 2024. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
What this recall was for
Viral and parasitic contamination
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic 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 117.10
- Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
- 21 CFR 112
- Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
- 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.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce 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.
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21 CFR 117.10 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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