POTATO SWEET DICE 1" 4/5# (01)10886810715139(10)0016088727 71513 Best if used by…
Liberty Fruit Co Inc DBA Carol's Cuts recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 June 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Sodium metabisulfite not declared on product label.
The record
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- Product
- POTATO SWEET DICE 1" 4/5# (01)10886810715139(10)0016088727 71513 Best if used by: 04/11/22, 04/21/22, 04/28/22 Ingredients: Potato, Sodium Metabisulfite
- Reason for recall
- Sodium metabisulfite not declared on product label.
- Recalling firm
- Liberty Fruit Co Inc DBA Carol's Cuts
- Firm location
- Kansas City, Kansas, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1171-2022
- Quantity
- 25,433 lbs (total)
- Distribution
- Distributed to food service locations in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri.
- Initiated
- 6 May 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 15 June 2022
- Terminated
- 27 October 2022
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Best if used by: 04/11/22, 04/21/22, 04/28/22 Product #: 71513
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 21 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 21 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 21. 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 21 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 6 May 2022 to termination on 27 October 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
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: sulfites.
Other records from Liberty Fruit Co Inc DBA Carol's Cuts
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 24 other records name this firm.
All 25 records for Liberty Fruit Co Inc DBA Carol's Cuts
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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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