Simply Organic French Onion Dip Mix Certified Organic packaged in foil lined paper…
Frontier Natural Products Co-op recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 June 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may be contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
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Product
Simply Organic French Onion Dip Mix Certified Organic packaged in foil lined paper packet Net Wt. 1.10 OZ. (31 g), UPC 0 89836 18841 0. The product is also marketed under a French/English label Net Wt. 31 g, UPC 0 89836 18878 6. The responsible name on the package is Frontier Natural Products Co-op Norway, IA.
Product was distributed nationwide, as well as to Puerto Rico and The Virgin Islands. Foreign distribution was made to Canada. There was also military distribution.
Initiated
16 March 2015
Reported by FDA
10 June 2015
Terminated
30 March 2017
Firm notified by
Press Release
Product codes
lot 4157 use by Jun 2016; lot 4197 use by Jul 2016; lot 4258 use by Sep 2016; lot 4281 use by Oct 2016; lot 4325 use by Nov 2016; lot 4364 use by Dec 2016; and lot 5040 use by Feb 2017.
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 25 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 25 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 25. 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 25 of them.
The recall ran for 2.0 years, from 16 March 2015 to termination on 30 March 2017. 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 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.
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.
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)(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.
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.
