Whole cantaloupe, brand name Kandy, packed in a corrugated box, 9 count
Eagle Produce LLC, dba Martori Farms recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 October 2024 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination with Salmonella spp.
The record
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- Product
- Whole cantaloupe, brand name Kandy, packed in a corrugated box, 9 count
- Reason for recall
- Possible contamination with Salmonella spp.
- Recalling firm
- Eagle Produce LLC, dba Martori Farms
- Firm location
- Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-1838-2024
- Quantity
- 224 cases
- Distribution
- Statewide distribution to MI, MO, OH, TX, VA, 4 locations received product via 3rd party truck. No foreign distribution and none to government agencies.
- Initiated
- 5 September 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 9 October 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Harvest Date: AUG 12, Lot Code 846468 on PTI label; PLU 4050, Size 9, USA #1, Product of USA, UPC 98843-0453, Storage instructions: 35-52F Force air room, 38-40 Shipping
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.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The distribution pattern names 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- 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: Missouri, Ohio, Texas, Virginia. 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
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 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 Eagle Produce LLC, dba Martori Farms
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-11-01 | Whole cantaloupe, Brand name Kandy 11 count carton, 8 count carton, 9 count carton, 15 count carton d. Container description; Red Corrugated Paper Carton or Black Plastic RPC. | Eagle Produce LLC, dba Martori Farms | Possible contamination with Salmonella spp. | Class I |
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