Macadamia Diced Nuts packaged under the following brands: 1) Shurfine, Item no.
Marathon Ventures Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 May 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product potentially contaminated with Salmonella. Routine, random product sampling by FDA revealed the presence of Salmonella in a retail package of macadamia nuts packaged by the recalling firm.
The record
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- Product
- Macadamia Diced Nuts packaged under the following brands: 1) Shurfine, Item no. 86635, 5 OZ (142 g) plastic bags, packed 12 bags per case, UPC 0 15400 86635 4. Distributed by Western Family Foods, Inc., Portland OR. 2) Western Family, 5 OZ (142 g) plastic bags, packed 12 per case, UPC 0 15400 16635 5. Distributed by Western Family Foods, Inc., Portland, OR. 3) HyVee, 2 OZ (57 g) plastic bags, packed 12 per case, UPC 0 75450 13287 8. Distributed by HyVee, Inc., West Des Moines, IA. 4) Market Pantry, 2.25 OZ (64 g) plastic bags, packed 12 bags per case, UPC 0 85239 52108 3. Distributed by Target Corp., Minneapolis, MN. 5) Pear's Gourmet, 16 OZ (454 g) plastic bags, UPC 0 75049 42186 4. Pear's Gourmet, Bellevue, NE 68005. 6) CWD, 5 LBS. (2.27 kg) per 1-count case, UPC 06509. Packed for and distributed by Cash-Wa Distributing Co. Kearney, North Platte, Sidney, NE. and 7) Nutpro C.C. Macadamia Nuts Style #5, 25 LBS., bulk case item no. N0609. The responsible firm is Nutpro South Africa.
- UPC
- 015400866354
- Reason for recall
- Product potentially contaminated with Salmonella. Routine, random product sampling by FDA revealed the presence of Salmonella in a retail package of macadamia nuts packaged by the recalling firm.
- Recalling firm
- Marathon Ventures Inc
- Firm location
- Bellevue, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1244-2016
- Quantity
- 5890 lbs.
- Distribution
- Product was distributed to CA, CO, GA, IA, IN, MN, MO, NC, NE, OR, SC, TX, UT, VA, and WI. There was no military/government/foreign distribution.
- Initiated
- 23 February 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 4 May 2016
- Terminated
- 12 October 2018
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Product 1 - Shurfine) Best By: 2 SEP 2016; Product 2 - Western Family) Best By: 3 AUG 2016, 4 AUG 2016, 2 SEP 2016 Product 3 - HyVee) Best By: 10 JUL 2016 Product 4 - Market Pantry) Best By: 13 AUG 2016, 11 SEP 2016 Product 5 - Pear's Gourmet) Best By: 11 SEP 2016, 25 SEP 2016 Product 6 - CWD) lots 15204 andn 15260 Product 7 - Nutpro, bulk) lot 79818
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 2.6 years, from 23 February 2016 to termination on 12 October 2018. 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 13 states, and 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 longer 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under nuts and seeds. 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 Marathon Ventures Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 3 records for Marathon Ventures Inc
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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