MURRAY'S SOUTHWESTERN JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes.
The Kroger Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 August 2020 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport.
The record
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- Product
- MURRAY'S SOUTHWESTERN JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes.
- Reason for recall
- Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport.
- Recalling firm
- The Kroger Co
- Firm location
- Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1279-2020
- Quantity
- 160 units
- Distribution
- Products were distributed in the following states: AK, AZ, AR, ID, KY, LA, MS, MO, MT, NV, NM, OH, OR, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WV, & WY.
- Initiated
- 5 August 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 26 August 2020
- Terminated
- 28 September 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- UPC: 207185-00000 Sell by dates: 5/22/20 through 8/13/20
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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. All 17 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 8 weeks, from 5 August 2020 to termination on 28 September 2020. 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 18 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West 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 sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 17 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 16 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-08-26 | MURRAY'S CHADS SMOKED GOUDA DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI RANCH CHEESE SPREAD KIT in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | MURRAY'S JALEPENO JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI SOUTHWEST CHEESE SPREAD KIT in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI JARLSBERG JALAPENO DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | LCCV PIMENTO CHEESE DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI BUFFALO BLUE CHEESE SPREAD KIT in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | MURRAY'S BACON CHIVE JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI SOUTHWESTERN JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | AFIN JARLSBERG CHEESE SPREAD KIT in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI APPLEWOOD CHEDDAR DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI JARLSBERG CHEESE DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | DELI BACON CHIVE JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
| 2020-08-26 | JARLSBERG DIP in plastic tubs, all sizes. | The Kroger Co | Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport. | Class I |
Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 The Kroger Co
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 90 other records name this firm.
All 91 records for The Kroger Co
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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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