MD Salad Bar-Red Onion. Expiration date 7/31/2020 Ingredients: raw red onion
Giant Eagle recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 September 2020 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport in onions and prepared foods containing onions.
The record
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- Product
- MD Salad Bar-Red Onion. Expiration date 7/31/2020 Ingredients: raw red onion
- Reason for recall
- Potential contamination with Salmonella Newport in onions and prepared foods containing onions.
- Recalling firm
- Giant Eagle
- Firm location
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1366-2020
- Quantity
- Unknown
- Distribution
- Product was produced and sold in Giant Eagle and Market District locations in IN, OH, MD, WV and PA.
- Initiated
- 2 August 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 9 September 2020
- Terminated
- 12 May 2021
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- N/A
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 54 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 54 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 54. 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 54 of them.
- The recall ran for 9 months, from 2 August 2020 to termination on 12 May 2021. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania. 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 fresh produce and snacks and confectionery. 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.
Other records from Giant Eagle
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 70 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-07-13 | GE Bakery, Gob, Mini, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Icing | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 24777800000 Brownie Classic Peanut Bttr 8c , 14Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 25022900000 Peanut Butter Fudge Bar Cake 22.6 Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 25115700000 Bakery, Cake, Peanut Butter Fudge Split 25.6 Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 25135900000 Bakery, Brownie, Peanut Butter Creme 16Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE Bakery, Cookie, Thumbprint, Peanut Butter, 12 Oz., Clam Shell | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 25136000000 Bakery, Cake, Chocolate, Peanut Butter Iced 8Oz 4 | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 29765500000 Cupcake 6 Buckeye 18Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 23984200000 Torte Peanut Butter 62Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
| 2022-07-13 | GE 22777900000 Brownie Tray Classic - 24 Ct., 24Oz | Giant Eagle | Products were made with Jiff Peanut Butter and have the potential for Salmonella Contamination. | Class I |
All 71 records for Giant Eagle
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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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