Purity Organic - Organic Mango Mango Tommy Atkins CAT 1, Size 07, 08, 10 and 12.
Pacific Organic Produce recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 May 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. IEH sample had positive result for Listeria Monocytogenes of Purity Brand Organic Fresh Mango.
The record
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- Product
- Purity Organic - Organic Mango Mango Tommy Atkins CAT 1, Size 07, 08, 10 and 12. Product of Mexico, Pacific.com distributed by: Pacific Organic Produce, San Francisco, CA 94080
- Reason for recall
- IEH sample had positive result for Listeria Monocytogenes of Purity Brand Organic Fresh Mango.
- Recalling firm
- Pacific Organic Produce
- Firm location
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1948-2014
- Quantity
- 1400 cases
- Distribution
- CA, AZ, TX, NJ, CO.
- Initiated
- 3 May 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 21 May 2014
- Terminated
- 10 June 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- PLU 94051 and 94959; Lot 00017954 (not a retail pack)
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 5 weeks, from 3 May 2014 to termination on 10 June 2014. 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 5 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks 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: California, Arizona, Texas, New Jersey, Colorado. 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 fresh produce and pet and animal food. 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.
All 2014 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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