Publix 7 inch Whipped Topping Choc Dec cake Scale ID Number * 002-94396-00000 *The last…
Publix Super Markets, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 March 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Maplehurst Deli-Bake South Inc. the cake supplier notified Publix Super market of a contamination with Listeria Monocytogenes on 11/15/2012.
The record
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- Product
- Publix 7 inch Whipped Topping Choc Dec cake Scale ID Number * 002-94396-00000 *The last five digits of the scale ID number contain the unit price. For example $4.99 would have the last five digits ending 00499.
- Reason for recall
- Maplehurst Deli-Bake South Inc. the cake supplier notified Publix Super market of a contamination with Listeria Monocytogenes on 11/15/2012.
- Recalling firm
- Publix Super Markets, Inc.
- Firm location
- Lakeland, Florida, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1163-2013
- Quantity
- N/A
- Distribution
- Florida
- Initiated
- 15 November 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 20 March 2013
- Terminated
- 17 May 2013
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Recalled products were distributed from November 11, 2012 through November 15, 2012.
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 44 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 44 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 44. 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 44 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 15 November 2012 to termination on 17 May 2013. 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 4 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
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 bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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 Publix Super Markets, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 77 other records name this firm.
All 78 records for Publix Super Markets, Inc.
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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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