Shelled Eggs, Extra Large 18pk sold under the brand names of Publix UPC 0 41415 00966 0…
Cal Maine Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 May 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was notified by their supplier that the product may contain Salmonella.
The record
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Product
Shelled Eggs, Extra Large 18pk sold under the brand names of Publix UPC 0 41415 00966 0 & Sunups UPC 0 28621 36398 4
UPC
041415009660
Reason for recall
The firm was notified by their supplier that the product may contain Salmonella.
Recalling firm
Cal Maine Foods
Firm location
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
Classification
Class I
Status
Terminated
Recall number
F-1411-2018
Quantity
23,400 dz eggs
Distribution
Product was shipped to FL & GA.
Initiated
14 April 2018
Reported by FDA
9 May 2018
Terminated
2 July 2018
Firm notified by
Telephone
Product codes
P1539D 048A Best By APR 02 & P1539D 049A Best By APR 03
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 3 months, from 14 April 2018 to termination on 2 July 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 FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of eggs run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Shell eggs have their own Salmonella Enteritidis prevention regulation at 21 CFR part 118, which requires testing and refrigeration on farms above a size threshold, and they are separately one of the nine major allergens.
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 eggs. A product can sit in more than one.
Other eggs 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.
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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
