potato/fries, Label states "Joe's Pride" and bears the address 9705 I Street, Omaha, NE…
Greenberg Fruit Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 October 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Routine environmental test samples were positive for Listeria monocytogenes on two processing machines.
The record
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- Product
- potato/fries, Label states "Joe's Pride" and bears the address 9705 I Street, Omaha, NE 68127. Product is packaged in poly bags inside cardboard boxes. All have a best by date of 7 days from date of production.
- Reason for recall
- Routine environmental test samples were positive for Listeria monocytogenes on two processing machines.
- Recalling firm
- Greenberg Fruit Co
- Firm location
- Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2612-2016
- Quantity
- 245 cases (20 pounds each)
- Distribution
- Affected product was distributed to foodservice establishments in Omaha, Lincoln, and Bellevue, NE only.
- Initiated
- 15 July 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 12 October 2016
- Terminated
- 4 January 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot numbers: 160627, 160629, 160630, 16071, 16074, 16076, 16077, 16079, 160711, 160713
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 10 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 10 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 10. 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 10 of them.
- The recall ran for 18 months, from 15 July 2016 to termination on 4 January 2018. 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.
- 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.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
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 records from Greenberg Fruit Co
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.
All 10 records for Greenberg Fruit Co
All 2016 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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.
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