Mustard was shipped in card board boxes that are labeled with the firm name "Howard…
Howard Calcagno Farms recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 September 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Mustard is recalled due to a potential for contamination with Cyclospora cayetanensis.
The record
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Product
Mustard was shipped in card board boxes that are labeled with the firm name "Howard Calcagno, Aurora, OR 97002".
Reason for recall
Mustard is recalled due to a potential for contamination with Cyclospora cayetanensis.
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 19 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 19 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 19. 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 19 of them.
The recall ran for 3 months, from 13 August 2018 to termination on 6 November 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.
Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic 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 117.10
Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
21 CFR 112
Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
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.
Other sauces, dips and condiments 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.
Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora.
Salsa products are recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. Salsa products contain cilantro that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
Salsa products are recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. Salsa products contain cilantro that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
Salsa products are recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. Salsa products contain cilantro that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
Salsa products are recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. Salsa products contain cilantro that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
Three Cheese Pasta Spinache Stonemill Kitchens is recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora. The pasta salad contains spinach that was recalled due to a potential contamination with Cyclospora.
Class II
Other records from Howard Calcagno Farms
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 18 other records name this firm.
21 CFR 117.10 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
