5 K Omega Trail Mix: Aurora 20 oz. Plastic Cup UPC: 65585200121; Aurora, 10 oz.
Aurora Products, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 May 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Salmonella
The record
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- Product
- 5 K Omega Trail Mix: Aurora 20 oz. Plastic Cup UPC: 65585200121; Aurora, 10 oz. Plastic Cup UPC: 65585200703; Belmont Market 10 oz. Plastic Cup; UPC: 65585200703; Gourmet Garage 10 oz. Plastic Cup UPC: 79084505947 Union Market 10 oz. Plastic Cup UPC: 65585200703
- UPC
- 65585200121
- Reason for recall
- Salmonella
- Recalling firm
- Aurora Products, Inc.
- Firm location
- Orange, Connecticut, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2260-2015
- Quantity
- 268 lbs
- Distribution
- Product shipped to distributors in the following states: NY, CT, NH, RI, MA, CA, MD, ME, MN, PA and Nationwide through retail stores. Canada: Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls stores Bermuda
- Initiated
- 20 March 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 20 May 2015
- Terminated
- 17 August 2015
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best if used by date range: 11/3/15 11/16/15
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 12 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 12 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 12. 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 12 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 20 March 2015 to termination on 17 August 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 distribution pattern names 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months 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: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, California, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, Pennsylvania. 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.
Other records from Aurora Products, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 18 other records name this firm.
All 19 records for Aurora Products, Inc.
All 2015 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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