Onion Yellow Med 3 Outer Rings 4-5 LB in a 5 LB ,vacuum sealed, clear plastic bag.
Pueblo Fruits, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 April 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm did not complete a hazard analysis for potential C. botulinum growth and toxin production of its processing, storage and shipping of raw onions into vacuum sealed bags.
The record
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- Product
- Onion Yellow Med 3 Outer Rings 4-5 LB in a 5 LB ,vacuum sealed, clear plastic bag. Labeling: White paper label with the following information attached to the outside of plastic bag. Blake's (Richmond) Onion Yellow Med 3 Outer Rings 4-5 LB PO# 047981 Lot#787806-6883R5, 795046-3948R1, 787806-6883R3, 795046-3948R2 Use By Date: 04/03/2024 Pueblo Fruit and Vegetable CO.
- Reason for recall
- The firm did not complete a hazard analysis for potential C. botulinum growth and toxin production of its processing, storage and shipping of raw onions into vacuum sealed bags.
- Recalling firm
- Pueblo Fruits, Inc.
- Firm location
- Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1127-2024
- Quantity
- 23 cases
- Distribution
- The recalled product was only distributed to one customer: Blake s Lota Burger Address: 3207 Richmond Dr NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107
- Initiated
- 27 March 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 17 April 2024
- Terminated
- 25 April 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Code information is located on a white paper label to the outside of plastic bag. The label contains the following information. Blake's (Richmond) Onion Yellow Med 3 Outer Rings 4-5 LB PO# 047981 Lot#787806-6883R5, 795046-3948R1, 787806-6883R8, 795046-3948R2 Pueblo Fruit and Vegetable CO. Use By Date: 04/01/2024 (Lot#787806-6883R5) 04/02/2024 (Lot#795046-3948R1 &787806-6883R8 ) 04/03/2024 (Lot#795046-3948R2)
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 4 weeks, from 27 March 2024 to termination on 25 April 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
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 117.35(b) 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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