Kiwi, Strawberry. Keep Refrigerated. Packaged in the following brands and sizes: 1.
Russ Davis Wholesale, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 September 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Various vegetable and fruit products are recalled due to inadequate sanitizer in wash water.
The record
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- Product
- Kiwi, Strawberry. Keep Refrigerated. Packaged in the following brands and sizes: 1. Item 80850. Net Wt. 12 oz. Crazy Fresh, quick & easy, and grocery store branded. 2. Item 80871. Net Wt 20 oz. Crazy Fresh, quick & easy, and grocery store branded.
- Reason for recall
- Various vegetable and fruit products are recalled due to inadequate sanitizer in wash water.
- Recalling firm
- Russ Davis Wholesale, LLC
- Firm location
- Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1764-2022
- Quantity
- 87,915 units total
- Distribution
- IA, MI, MN, ND, SD, WI
- Initiated
- 29 July 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 28 September 2022
- Terminated
- 23 September 2022
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 1. Lot Code: X5981801, X5984473, X5989192, X5990967, X5993378, X5996062, X5998676. Use by Dates: 7/22-7/26/2022 2. Lot Code: X5981813, X5984486, X5989202, X5990980, X5993389, X5996077, X5998693. Use by Dates: 7/26-8/2/2022
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 37 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 37 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 37. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 37 of them.
- The recall ran for 8 weeks, from 29 July 2022 to termination on 23 September 2022. 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 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin. 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
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce 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 Russ Davis Wholesale, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 38 other records name this firm.
All 39 records for Russ Davis Wholesale, LLC
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21 CFR 117.35(b) 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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