PRIESTER'S PECANS brand brand ROASTED SALTED PISTACHIOS, item #18010, Net Wt.
Priester Pecan Company, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 November 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Pistachios, which were supplied by ARO and subsequently recalled, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
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- Product
- PRIESTER'S PECANS brand brand ROASTED SALTED PISTACHIOS, item #18010, Net Wt. 1 lb (454g), UPC 720056180104; item #15502, Net Wt. 8 oz (226.8g), UPC 001001155027; Stock No. 189, Net Wt. 2 lb (907g)
- UPC
- 720056180104
- Reason for recall
- Pistachios, which were supplied by ARO and subsequently recalled, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
- Recalling firm
- Priester Pecan Company, Inc.
- Firm location
- Fort Deposit, Alabama, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1730-2013
- Quantity
- 701.5 pounds
- Distribution
- Nationwide and Puerto Rico
- Initiated
- 28 June 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 20 November 2013
- Terminated
- 12 November 2013
- Firm notified by
- Other
- Product codes
- The product is not coded.
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 is one of 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 28 June 2013 to termination on 12 November 2013. 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 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.
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.
Filed under nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-20 | PRIESTER'S PECANS brand FANCY ROASTED NUTS, Stock No. 7, Net Wt 12 oz (454g) | Priester Pecan Company, Inc. | Pistachios, which were supplied by ARO and subsequently recalled, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class I |
| 2013-11-20 | PRIESTER'S PECANS brand NUTTY FAVORITES ASST, Stock No. 79, Net Wt 1 lb 10 oz (737g) | Priester Pecan Company, Inc. | Pistachios, which were supplied by ARO and subsequently recalled, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class I |
Other nuts and seeds 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 Priester Pecan Company, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-11-20 | PRIESTER'S PECANS brand FANCY ROASTED NUTS, Stock No. 7, Net Wt 12 oz (454g) | Priester Pecan Company, Inc. | Pistachios, which were supplied by ARO and subsequently recalled, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class I |
| 2013-11-20 | PRIESTER'S PECANS brand NUTTY FAVORITES ASST, Stock No. 79, Net Wt 1 lb 10 oz (737g) | Priester Pecan Company, Inc. | Pistachios, which were supplied by ARO and subsequently recalled, have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. | Class I |
All 3 records for Priester Pecan Company, Inc.
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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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