Blue Plate Light Olive Oil Mayonnaise 30oz / 18oz, PET jars and PET squeeze bottles
Reily Foods Co., Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 July 2019 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Yeast presence that resulted in gas formation causing bottles to bloat and release mayonnaise.
The record
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- Product
- Blue Plate Light Olive Oil Mayonnaise 30oz / 18oz, PET jars and PET squeeze bottles
- Reason for recall
- Yeast presence that resulted in gas formation causing bottles to bloat and release mayonnaise.
- Recalling firm
- Reily Foods Co., Inc
- Firm location
- New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1533-2019
- Quantity
- 1669 cases, 12 units/case
- Distribution
- Distributed in the states of TN, Al, GA, FL, AR, TX, NJ, CA, SC, LA, MS, PA & KY.
- Initiated
- 20 May 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 17 July 2019
- Terminated
- 3 September 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot 1904050401 Best By Date 04 04 20; Lot 1904230401 Best By Date 04 22 20; Lot 1904300401 Best By Date 04 29 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 III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 3 months, from 20 May 2019 to termination on 3 September 2019. 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 10 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 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: Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Arkansas, Texas, New Jersey, California, South Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi. 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
Spoilage and mould
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage 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 117.93
- Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
- 21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
- Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-17 | Blue Plate Light Mayonnaise 30oz, PET jars | Reily Foods Co., Inc | Yeast presence that resulted in gas formation causing bottles to bloat and release mayonnaise. | Class III |
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 Reily Foods Co., Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-07-17 | Blue Plate Light Mayonnaise 30oz, PET jars | Reily Foods Co., Inc | Yeast presence that resulted in gas formation causing bottles to bloat and release mayonnaise. | Class III |
All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.93 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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