Case: Beyond Meat Vegetarian Indian Curry with Beyond Chicken, GMI Item # 46671000…
General Mills, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 September 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. General Mills today announced a voluntary recall of a limited quantity of frozen Beyond Meat Vegetarian Indian Curry with Beyond Chicken. The recall is being issued as a precaution after the producer of frozen peas used as an ingredient in this product issued a national recall for the potential presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Case: Beyond Meat Vegetarian Indian Curry with Beyond Chicken, GMI Item # 46671000, Frozen. Net WT 5 lbs (2.2 KG) 8 - 10 oz (263 g). Individual items: 21 Grams of Plant Protein, Vegetarian Indian Curry with Beyond Chicken, Net WT 10 oz (263 g), UPC is 000-16000-46671 , Keep Frozen.
- Reason for recall
- General Mills today announced a voluntary recall of a limited quantity of frozen Beyond Meat Vegetarian Indian Curry with Beyond Chicken. The recall is being issued as a precaution after the producer of frozen peas used as an ingredient in this product issued a national recall for the potential presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- General Mills, Inc
- Firm location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2038-2016
- Quantity
- 1826 cases
- Distribution
- USA: CA, CO, CT, FL, IN, IA, MD, NH, NY, TX, WA, WI.
- Initiated
- 30 June 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 7 September 2016
- Terminated
- 5 July 2017
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- 10NOV2016 NL 16NOV2016 NL 25NOV2016 NL 12NOV2016 NL 20NOV2016 NL 15NOV2016 NL 24NOV2016 NL
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 12 months, from 30 June 2016 to termination on 5 July 2017. 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 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of meat or poultry run a median of 8 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Most meat and poultry is regulated by USDA FSIS rather than the FDA, so a product appearing in this FDA dataset is usually a closed-faced sandwich, a product with meat as a minor ingredient, or a food FSIS does not claim.
Named in the distribution pattern: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, New Hampshire, New York, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin. 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 meat and poultry and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other meat and poultry 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 General Mills, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 37 other records name this firm.
All 38 records for General Mills, Inc
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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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