Amy's Brown Rice & Vegetables Bowl, Light in Sodium, 9.5 oz (269 g) 12 boxes per case.
Amys Kitchen Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 June 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
The record
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Product
Amy's Brown Rice & Vegetables Bowl, Light in Sodium, 9.5 oz (269 g) 12 boxes per case. UPC: 0-42272-00240-5, US distribution only; UPC : 0-42272-90807-3 - Canadian distribution Amy Kitchen, Petaluma, CA
UPC
042272002405
Reason for recall
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Nationwide and to Canada, Japan, Philippines and United Kingdom.
Initiated
22 March 2015
Reported by FDA
10 June 2015
Terminated
5 August 2015
Firm notified by
Press Release
Product codes
Item number 000243; US distribution Lot codes: 30-A195, 30-C035
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 13 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 13 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 13. 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 13 of them.
The recall ran for 4 months, from 22 March 2015 to termination on 5 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
Notified by supplier of spinach that product showing the presence of Listeria Monocytogenes was erroneously shipped and used in further manufacturing of products.
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.
