Produce Packaging Inc. brand Barcelona Vinaigrette Grain Bowl in a 11.65oz plastic bowl…
Produce Packaging Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 May 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared wheat on product label.
The record
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- Product
- Produce Packaging Inc. brand Barcelona Vinaigrette Grain Bowl in a 11.65oz plastic bowl with a plastic lid. Four bowls per case.
- Reason for recall
- Undeclared wheat on product label.
- Recalling firm
- Produce Packaging Inc
- Firm location
- Willoughby Hills, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1013-2022
- Quantity
- 74 cases.
- Distribution
- Products were distributed to IL and OH.
- Initiated
- 14 April 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 4 May 2022
- Terminated
- 4 May 2022
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lots: X0736057, X0736060, X0736663, X0736671, X0736910, X0737135, X0737164, X0737285, X0737877, X0738424, X0738471, X0739244, X0739284, X0739317, X0739731, X0739736, X0740343, X0740351, X0740369, X0740904, X0740947, and X0741020. Product Number: PP#51615 Expiration Dates: 04/12/22-4/20/22
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 is one of 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3 weeks, from 14 April 2022 to termination on 4 May 2022. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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: wheat.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-04 | Produce Packaging Inc. brand Spicy Southwest Grain Bowl in a 11.75oz plastic bowl with a plastic lid. One bowl per case. | Produce Packaging Inc | Undeclared wheat on product label. | Class I |
| 2022-05-04 | Produce Packaging Inc. brand Red Curry Grain Bowl in a 10.5oz plastic bowl with a plastic lid. Four bowls per case. | Produce Packaging Inc | Undeclared wheat on product label. | Class I |
Other grains, flour and pasta 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 Produce Packaging Inc
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-04 | Produce Packaging Inc. brand Spicy Southwest Grain Bowl in a 11.75oz plastic bowl with a plastic lid. One bowl per case. | Produce Packaging Inc | Undeclared wheat on product label. | Class I |
| 2022-05-04 | Produce Packaging Inc. brand Red Curry Grain Bowl in a 10.5oz plastic bowl with a plastic lid. Four bowls per case. | Produce Packaging Inc | Undeclared wheat on product label. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Broccoli/Cauliflower 8/2 CT | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Burger, Chipotle Beet & Bean 4/10 OZ | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Cauliflower Floret 2/3 LB | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Tray Vegetable 16" | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Tray, Veg - Fishers 2/24 oz | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Tray, Veg - Fishers 12" | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli.. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Tray, Vegetable 2/24 OZ | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
| 2019-03-06 | Produce Packaging, Inc. Cauliflower, Steak 2/5 lb | Produce Packaging Inc | Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli. | Class I |
All 25 records for Produce Packaging Inc
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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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