Tortilleria Provincia Refrigerate After Purchase Blue Corn Tortillas, Net Wt.
Tortilleria Provincia recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 July 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm used the same label clear plastic bags with Nutrition Facts and Ingredients listed for all three type corn tortillas (Yellow, White, and Blue); the color Yellow # 2 was written in lieu of Yellow # 6 for the Blue corn tortilla; additional color ingredients (FD&C BLUE No. 1, FD&C YELLOW No. 2, FD&C RED N. 40, SODIUM BENZOATE) are included for the White and Yellow corn tortillas.
The record
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- Product
- Tortilleria Provincia Refrigerate After Purchase Blue Corn Tortillas, Net Wt. 16 oz, 0 89780 10000 1 & 64 oz, 0 89780 10001 8, Tortilleria Provincia, 1200 B Clay St. Bowling Green, KY 42101 (270) 842-7733
- Reason for recall
- The firm used the same label clear plastic bags with Nutrition Facts and Ingredients listed for all three type corn tortillas (Yellow, White, and Blue); the color Yellow # 2 was written in lieu of Yellow # 6 for the Blue corn tortilla; additional color ingredients (FD&C BLUE No. 1, FD&C YELLOW No. 2, FD&C RED N. 40, SODIUM BENZOATE) are included for the White and Yellow corn tortillas.
- Recalling firm
- Tortilleria Provincia
- Firm location
- Bowling Green, Kentucky, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2851-2015
- Quantity
- 96/64 oz bags & 12/16 oz bags
- Distribution
- Product was shipped to KY & OH
- Initiated
- 6 May 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 22 July 2015
- Terminated
- 19 November 2015
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 04-04-15/ - 05/10/15; 04-29-15 05/3015; 05-02-15 06/1215
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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. 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 3 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 6 May 2015 to termination on 19 November 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 bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
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.
Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other bakery 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.
Other records from Tortilleria Provincia
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-07-22 | Tortilleria Provincia Refrigerate After Purchase White Corn Tortillas, Net Wt. 16 oz, 0 89780 10000 1 & 64 oz, 0 89780 10001 8, Tortilleria Provincia, 1200 B Clay St. Bowling Green, KY 42101 (270) 842-7733 | Tortilleria Provincia | The firm used the same label clear plastic bags with Nutrition Facts and Ingredients listed for all three type corn tortillas (Yellow, White, and Blue); the color Yellow # 2 was written in lieu of Yellow # 6 for the Blue corn tortilla; additional color ingredients (FD&C BLUE No. 1, FD&C YELLOW No. 2, FD&C RED N. 40, SODIUM BENZOATE) are included for the White and Yellow corn tortillas. | Class II |
| 2015-07-22 | Tortilleria Provincia Refrigerate After Purchase Yellow Corn Tortillas, Net Wt. 16 oz, 0 89780 10000 1 & 64 oz, 0 89780 10001 8, Tortilleria Provincia, 1200 B Clay St. Bowling Green, KY 42101 (270) 842-7733 | Tortilleria Provincia | The firm used the same label clear plastic bags with Nutrition Facts and Ingredients listed for all three type corn tortillas (Yellow, White, and Blue); the color Yellow # 2 was written in lieu of Yellow # 6 for the Blue corn tortilla; additional color ingredients (FD&C BLUE No. 1, FD&C YELLOW No. 2, FD&C RED N. 40, SODIUM BENZOATE) are included for the White and Yellow corn tortillas. | Class II |
| 2013-03-13 | Yellow Corn Tortillas in 5 lb clear flexible plastic bags with green and yellow printing. Tortilleria Provincia 1200 B Clay Street Bowling Green, KY 42101 | Tortilleria Provincia | During an FDA inspection at the firm, it was discovered that the firm uses, FD&C Yellow #5, in the manufacture of their tortillas. However, FD&C Yellow #5 is not listed in the ingredient statement. | Class II |
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