Hill Country Fare Neopolitan 4.5 quarts and 56 ounces; Hill Country Fare Neopolitan…
H-E-B GROCERY COMPANY LP DBA HEB recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 June 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. May contain broken metal pieces
The record
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- Product
- Hill Country Fare Neopolitan 4.5 quarts and 56 ounces; Hill Country Fare Neopolitan (Mexico) 4.5 quarts
- Reason for recall
- May contain broken metal pieces
- Recalling firm
- H-E-B GROCERY COMPANY LP DBA HEB
- Firm location
- San Antonio, Texas, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1555-2018
- Quantity
- 119,204 units
- Distribution
- Texas and Mexico
- Initiated
- 30 May 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 20 June 2018
- Terminated
- 4 September 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- UPCs 4122090943, 4122092212, 4122010102; Best if used by: 6/3/2019 through 6/22/2019 and Best if used by: 6/25/2019 and Best if used by: 6/17/2019 through 6/18/2019
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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. All 15 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 30 May 2018 to termination on 4 September 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 3 weeks 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
Foreign material
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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 15 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 14 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.
Other records from H-E-B GROCERY COMPANY LP DBA HEB
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 23 other records name this firm.
All 24 records for H-E-B GROCERY COMPANY LP DBA HEB
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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.
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