Conventional Desiccated Coconut - Medium Shred 25 lb. bags. Exp date: 20.11.2015 Item…
Falcon Trading Co., Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 July 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm noticed stainless steel wire fragments, approximately .2 MM in diameter and between 1 to 3 inches in length in shredded coconut received from supplier in Sri Lanka.
The record
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- Product
- Conventional Desiccated Coconut - Medium Shred 25 lb. bags. Exp date: 20.11.2015 Item code: 001120; UPC: 086700011201 Imported by Falcon Trading Company Inc/Sun Ridge Farms, Royal Oaks, CA Country of Origin - Sri Lanka
- UPC
- 086700011201
- Reason for recall
- Firm noticed stainless steel wire fragments, approximately .2 MM in diameter and between 1 to 3 inches in length in shredded coconut received from supplier in Sri Lanka.
- Recalling firm
- Falcon Trading Co., Inc.
- Firm location
- Royal Oaks, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2784-2015
- Quantity
- 726 x 25 lb. sacks
- Distribution
- DE, CA, TX, OK, LA,
- Initiated
- 22 May 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 8 July 2015
- Terminated
- 10 August 2015
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Lot number DCM -101 and DCM - 102. Expiration: 20.11.2015
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 22 May 2015 to termination on 10 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 5 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks 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: Delaware, California, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-08 | Sunridge Candy-Coconut Chews, Vanilla. 10 lb. box. Item code: 023617; UPC: 086700936177 Falcon Trading Company Inc/Sun Ridge Farms, Royal Oaks, CA | Falcon Trading Co., Inc. | Firm noticed stainless steel wire fragments, approximately .2 MM in diameter and between 1 to 3 inches in length in shredded coconut received from supplier in Sri Lanka. | Class II |
Other records from Falcon Trading Co., Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 11 other records name this firm.
All 12 records for Falcon Trading Co., Inc.
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21 CFR 117.40 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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