PDP reads in part "***GOOD FOOD MADE SIMPLE***breakfast in a bowl *** SOUTHWESTERN…
J. R. Simplot Co. Corporate HQ recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 May 2014 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Raw material supplier accidently added sodium benzoate to the salsa used in manufacturing the finished product. Sodium benzoate was not declared on the ingredient statement of both the raw material and finished product.
The record
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- Product
- PDP reads in part "***GOOD FOOD MADE SIMPLE***breakfast in a bowl *** SOUTHWESTERN VEGGIES***" UPC 0 80618 41801 5
- UPC
- 080618418015
- Reason for recall
- Raw material supplier accidently added sodium benzoate to the salsa used in manufacturing the finished product. Sodium benzoate was not declared on the ingredient statement of both the raw material and finished product.
- Recalling firm
- J. R. Simplot Co. Corporate HQ
- Firm location
- Boise, Idaho, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1968-2014
- Quantity
- 2664 cases (8 - 7oz packages per case)
- Distribution
- distributed to one consignee's warehouse located in Fairfield, OH
- Initiated
- 7 February 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 28 May 2014
- Terminated
- 27 May 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 0214 Best By: January 21, 2015
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 4 months, from 7 February 2014 to termination on 27 May 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 J. R. Simplot Co. Corporate HQ
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
All 3 records for J R Simplot Co Corporate HQ
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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