Premium Hunt's Chili Kit, Total NET WT 44.8 OZ (2.80 LB) 1.27kg; Directions: 1) Cook and…
ConAgra Foods Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 May 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential Salmonella contamination of spice packet within chili kits.
The record
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- Product
- Premium Hunt's Chili Kit, Total NET WT 44.8 OZ (2.80 LB) 1.27kg; Directions: 1) Cook and stir meat in saucepan over medium-high 7 minutes or until done; drain. 2) Stir in all remaining ingredients; simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Con Agra Foods, P.O BOX 3768, Dept. Hunts, Omaha, NE 68103-0768 USA
- Reason for recall
- Potential Salmonella contamination of spice packet within chili kits.
- Recalling firm
- ConAgra Foods Inc
- Firm location
- Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2095-2017
- Quantity
- 5,458 cases (4 chili kits per case, 1 seasoning packet per kit)
- Distribution
- Nationwide
- Initiated
- 31 March 2017
- Reported by FDA
- 3 May 2017
- Terminated
- 3 June 2019
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot 3534619500 Lot 3534622200 Lot 3534619600
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 2.2 years, from 31 March 2017 to termination on 3 June 2019. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks 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.
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.
Filed under meat and poultry and sauces, dips and condiments. 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 ConAgra Foods Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 15 other records name this firm.
All 16 records for ConAgra Foods, INc.
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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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