Class ITerminated · reported 2017-04-26

Whey Protein Concentrate 34%, 25kg (WP34) Grade A

United Dairymen of Arizona recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 April 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.

The record

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Product: Whey Protein Concentrate 34%, 25kg (WP34) Grade A
Reason for recall: United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.
Recalling firm: United Dairymen of Arizona
Firm location: Tempe, Arizona, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1982-2017
Quantity: 95,789.86 lbs.
Distribution: CA, AZ, Mexico
Initiated: 20 March 2017
Reported by FDA: 26 April 2017
Terminated: 23 July 2018
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: 17-009, 17-016, 17-024, 17-038

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. All 5 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 16 months, from 20 March 2017 to termination on 23 July 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 distribution pattern names 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: California, Arizona. 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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 5 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 4 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

The other 4 records of FDA event 76798
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2017-04-26	Buttermilk Powder, 25kg (BX25) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-04-26	Low Heat Nonfat Dry Milk 50lb (NF50) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-04-26	High Heat Nonfat Dry Milk 25kg (HH25) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-04-26	Low Heat Nonfat Dry Milk 25kg (EX25) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I

Other records from United Dairymen of Arizona

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2017-04-26	Buttermilk Powder, 25kg (BX25) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-04-26	Low Heat Nonfat Dry Milk 50lb (NF50) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-04-26	High Heat Nonfat Dry Milk 25kg (HH25) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I
2017-04-26	Low Heat Nonfat Dry Milk 25kg (EX25) Grade A	United Dairymen of Arizona	United Dairymen of Arizona (UDA) is recalling dry milk products because they may be contaminated with Salmonella.	Class I

All 5 records for United Dairymen of Arizona

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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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