Hill Country Fare Mustard Potato Salad refrigerated product is packaged in clear square…
Reser's Fine Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 August 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Mustard potato salad is being recalled due to plastic foreign material.
The record
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Product
Hill Country Fare Mustard Potato Salad refrigerated product is packaged in clear square plastic container with printed white plastic lid, net 48oz (3lb) 1.36 KG. UPC 4122003165. Distributed by H-E-B, San Antonio, TX 78204. There are 6 containers per case.
UPC
4122003165
Reason for recall
Mustard potato salad is being recalled due to plastic foreign material.
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
USE BY JUL/26/24 20 L2 HH:MM:SS Code breakdown as: USE BY MMM/DD/YY PLANT CODE LINE DESIGNTOR HH:MM:SS
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
The recall ran for 2 months, from 1 July 2024 to termination on 10 September 2024. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
21 CFR 117.80(c)
Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
21 CFR 117.150
Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
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.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
Tuna Salad products are recalled due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes because products containing Newly Weds Foods recalled Japanese Style Breadcrumbs.
21 CFR 117.40 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.
