Lemon Dill Butter Pucks
Raw Seafoods Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 September 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm used dill recalled for Listeria monocytogenes to product butter pucks
The record
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- Product
- Lemon Dill Butter Pucks
- Reason for recall
- Firm used dill recalled for Listeria monocytogenes to product butter pucks
- Recalling firm
- Raw Seafoods Inc.
- Firm location
- Fall River, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1583-2022
- Quantity
- 2 cases
- Distribution
- OH, MA
- Initiated
- 11 August 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 7 September 2022
- Terminated
- 28 March 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot/Unit Numbers: B5123 Expiration date(s) or Use by Date(s) or expected shelf life of product: 07/19/2023 UPC Codes: 10889396002907
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 8 months, from 11 August 2022 to termination on 28 March 2023. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: Ohio, Massachusetts. 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
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 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.
Filed under milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 Raw Seafoods Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-01-10 | Wegmans Seafood Medley, 1lb. | Raw Seafoods Inc. | May contain plastic foreign object | Class II |
| 2023-12-27 | Frozen, Lightly Seasoned Salmon Burgers, 28x6oz., 10.5 lbs cases | Raw Seafoods Inc. | Contains undeclared sesame seeds and milk | Class I |
| 2020-04-08 | Food You Feel Good About Brand, Salmon Teriyaki, Oven Safe | Raw Seafoods Inc. | The firm initiated a recall on 03/13/20 of frozen oven-safe Cook-in-bag Salmon for undeclared wheat | Class II |
| 2020-04-08 | Food You Feel Good About, Ginger Salmon, Oven Safe | Raw Seafoods Inc. | The firm initiated a recall on 03/13/20 of frozen oven-safe Cook-in-bag Salmon for undeclared wheat | Class II |
All 5 records for Raw Seafoods Inc.
All 2022 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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