Market Pantry Apple Cinnamon; 3.5 oz/12 pk applesauce is packed into a labeled aluminum…
PUREFRUIT CHILE S.A recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 August 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Purefruit Chile S.A. is recalling pouched applesauce due to the possibility of mold.
The record
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Product
Market Pantry Apple Cinnamon; 3.5 oz/12 pk applesauce is packed into a labeled aluminum pouch with plastic screw-on lid and then placed into a labeled cardboard box; product is labeled in part, "***market pantry Apple Cinnamon Fruit Pouch***NET WT 3.5 OZ (100g)***DISTRIBUTED BY TARGET CORPORATION MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55403***" UPC Code: 0-85239-20508-2
Reason for recall
Purefruit Chile S.A. is recalling pouched applesauce due to the possibility of mold.
Product was manufactured and shipped from Chile and stored in Purefruit Chile warehouses located in Marlyland and California. Product was further distributed to retail stores nationwide.
Initiated
1 July 2014
Reported by FDA
6 August 2014
Terminated
24 March 2015
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
BEST BY 22 FEB 2015 through BEST BY 30 MAY 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 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 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 9 months, from 1 July 2014 to termination on 24 March 2015. 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 fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage 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 117.93
Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
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.
Purefruit Chile S.A. is recalling pouched applesauce due to the possibility of mold.
Class II
Other fresh produce 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.
21 CFR 117.93 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
