Waffles packaged as follows: a) Aunt Jemima(R) Waffles, 144 COUNT, NET WT 7.88 LBS, UPC…
Pinnacle Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 June 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination
The record
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Product
Waffles packaged as follows: a) Aunt Jemima(R) Waffles, 144 COUNT, NET WT 7.88 LBS, UPC 001960043575 b) Aunt Jemima(R) Jumbo Square Waffles, 144 COUNT, NET WT 11.4 LBS, UPC 001960043573 c) Aunt Jemima(R) Waffles, 144 COUNT, NET WT 7.88 LBS, UPC 001960043575 d) Mrs. Butter-worth's(R) WAFFLES, 72 COUNT, NET WT 7.88 LBS, UPC 001960046009 e) Mrs. Butter-worth's(R) WAFFLES, 144 COUNT, NET WT 11.4 LBS, UPC 001960046001 f) Hilltop HEARTH WAFFLES, 18 BOLSAS CON 8 PIEZAS, PESO NETO 11 LBS 6.9 OZ, UPC 075810861817 g) Aunt Jemima(R) Original Round Waffles, 144 COUNT, NET WT 11.25 LBS, UPC 001960043580
UPC
001960043575
Reason for recall
Potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
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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 27 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 27 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 27. All 27 of them are listed on this page.
This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
The FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
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.
The FDA opened 27 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 26 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.
Potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination
Class II
Other milk and dairy 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 117.135(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.
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.
