Sabra Hummus Pine Nut, 7 OZ, 10 OZ, 17 OZ, 32 OZ UPC SKU ITEM 040822011747 300132 Sabra…
Sabra Dipping Company, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 January 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Sabra Hummus Pine Nut, 7 OZ, 10 OZ, 17 OZ, 32 OZ UPC SKU ITEM 040822011747 300132 Sabra Hummus Pine Nut 10OZ 040822127530 300134 Sabra Hummus Pine Nut 7OZ 040822990011 300136 Sabra Hummus Pine Nut 17OZ 040822012157 300139 Sabra Hummus Pine Nut 32OZ 040822990011 300501 Sabra Hummus Pine Nut 17OZ
- Reason for recall
- Products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- Sabra Dipping Company, LLC
- Firm location
- South Chesterfield, Virginia, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1113-2017
- Quantity
- 370715 Cases
- Distribution
- Thru out the US and three foreign countries.
- Initiated
- 18 November 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 18 January 2017
- Terminated
- 17 February 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best Before dates on or before January 23, 2017
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 20 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 20 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 20. 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 20 of them.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 18 November 2016 to termination on 17 February 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 nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under nuts and seeds and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Other nuts and seeds 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 Sabra Dipping Company, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 25 other records name this firm.
All 26 records for Sabra Dipping Company, LLC
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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