Pan Pita with soynut butter spread on top, 4" pita. Manufactured by Greater Miami…
Greater Miami Caterers, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 April 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Possible contamination with E. coli O157
The record
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- Product
- Pan Pita with soynut butter spread on top, 4" pita. Manufactured by Greater Miami Caterers 4001 NW 31 Ave.,
- Reason for recall
- Possible contamination with E. coli O157
- Recalling firm
- Greater Miami Caterers, Inc.
- Firm location
- Miami, Florida, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-1949-2017
- Quantity
- Approx. 43,776 portion cups, 16,000 sandwiches, 1,120 lb in various sized repackaged containers
- Distribution
- Product is distributed throughout Florida to child care programs and after school programs for children.
- Initiated
- 9 March 2017
- Reported by FDA
- 26 April 2017
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Product Code 8491. No expiration date
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 5 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 5 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 5. 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 5 of them.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
What this recall was for
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli 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 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
Filed under milk and dairy and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 Greater Miami Caterers, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 5 records for Greater Miami Caterers, Inc.
All 2017 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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