Class IITerminated · reported 2017-02-15

Dawson Foods Inc. Creamy White Frosting Mix , 5 Lb Bags, 6 5Lb bags per case Creamy…

Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 February 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Dawson Food Products, Inc. initiated a voluntary recall of Creamy White Frosting Mix and Kustard Kwik Mix due to a supplier's recall of dried milk for potential contamination with Salmonella.

The record

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Product: Dawson Foods Inc. Creamy White Frosting Mix , 5 Lb Bags, 6 5Lb bags per case Creamy White, Ambient Storage
Reason for recall: Dawson Food Products, Inc. initiated a voluntary recall of Creamy White Frosting Mix and Kustard Kwik Mix due to a supplier's recall of dried milk for potential contamination with Salmonella.
Recalling firm: Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods
Firm location: Jackson, Michigan, United States
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1443-2017
Quantity: Creamy White Frosting Mix 138 6/5 cases or 4140 Lb
Distribution: Domestic: GA, UT, WI Foreign:None VA/DOD: None
Initiated: 9 December 2016
Reported by FDA: 15 February 2017
Terminated: 13 February 2017
Firm notified by: E-Mail
Product codes: Dawson Foods Inc. Creamy White Frosting Mix, Dates of Manufacture: 05/11/2016 to 10/31/16, Item No: F0800A0-DF, Lot Numbers: 051116B1, 072616B1, 092116B1, 060916B1, 092116B1, UPC: 58162 20003

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 2 months, from 9 December 2016 to termination on 13 February 2017. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months 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

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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.

The other 1 records of FDA event 75932
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2017-02-15	Kustard Kwik Mix 50 Lb. Paper Bags	Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods	Dawson Food Products, Inc. initiated a voluntary recall of Creamy White Frosting Mix and Kustard Kwik Mix due to a supplier's recall of dried milk for potential contamination with Salmonella.	Class I

Other records from Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2022-06-08	Dawson Food Products Belgian Style Waffle Mix, 5 lbs. bag, bag UPC 758162120844, item code D6000A0; 6, 5 lbs. bags per case	Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods	Product tested over specification for coliforms and positive for low levels of E.coli	Class II
2017-02-15	Kustard Kwik Mix 50 Lb. Paper Bags	Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods	Dawson Food Products, Inc. initiated a voluntary recall of Creamy White Frosting Mix and Kustard Kwik Mix due to a supplier's recall of dried milk for potential contamination with Salmonella.	Class I

All 3 records for Dorothy Dawson Food Products dba Dawson Foods

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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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