Publix 8 inch T/S pumpkin pie US; 623g (22 oz. or 1 LB 6 oz.), Carton, 6 units per case
WESTON FOODS (CANADA) INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 September 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains lead and other pieces of metal sized .5mm -2.0mm.
The record
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- Product
- Publix 8 inch T/S pumpkin pie US; 623g (22 oz. or 1 LB 6 oz.), Carton, 6 units per case
- Reason for recall
- Product contains lead and other pieces of metal sized .5mm -2.0mm.
- Recalling firm
- WESTON FOODS (CANADA) INC
- Firm location
- Etobicoke, N/A, Canada
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2243-2019
- Quantity
- 3,278 cases; 19,688 individual units
- Distribution
- Products were distributed in: MI, WI, GA, FL
- Initiated
- 30 August 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 25 September 2019
- Terminated
- 27 January 2022
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- Lot/Unit Numbers: 9169X13863; 9168X13863; 9163X13863; 9164X13863 Expiration: 6/17/2020; 6/16/2020; 6/11/2020; 6/12/2020 UPC: 00041415329912
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 3 of them.
- The recall ran for 2.4 years, from 30 August 2019 to termination on 27 January 2022. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
Named in the distribution pattern: Wisconsin, Georgia, Florida. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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.
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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 WESTON FOODS (CANADA) INC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-25 | Glazed Pumpkin Cake Donut, 49226, UPC 10020569492266, NET WEIGHT 9.00 LB (4.08 kg), 12/12 OZ PKG PER CASE | WESTON FOODS (CANADA) INC | Product contains lead and other pieces of metal sized .5mm -2.0mm. | Class II |
| 2019-09-25 | Pumpkin Cake Roll - Pumpkin Spice Cake Roll with Creme Filling - Naturally Flavored - 1 CAKE ROLL - NET WT. 18 OZ (1 LB 2 OZ) 510 g; Pumpkin Junior Cake Rolls or Pumpkin Swiss Roll - Pumpkin Spice Cake Roll with Creme filling - Naturally Flavored - 6 CAKE ROLLS - NET WT. 14 OZ (400 g) | WESTON FOODS (CANADA) INC | Product contains lead and other pieces of metal sized .5mm -2.0mm. | Class II |
All 3 records for WESTON FOODS (CANADA) INC
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21 CFR 117.40 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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