Dijon Mustard Potato Salad, NET WT 3 LB (1.36 kg)
D & D Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 August 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Cups of macaroni salad are in tubs which declare the product to be potato salad and fail to disclose the presence of milk and wheat allergens.
The record
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- Product
- Dijon Mustard Potato Salad, NET WT 3 LB (1.36 kg)
- Reason for recall
- Cups of macaroni salad are in tubs which declare the product to be potato salad and fail to disclose the presence of milk and wheat allergens.
- Recalling firm
- D & D Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2952-2015
- Quantity
- 110 cases
- Distribution
- Product is sold exclusively in Hy-Vee retail grocery stores in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
- Initiated
- 14 July 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 19 August 2015
- Terminated
- 21 October 2015
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Lot Code: 15177D, Best if Used By: JUL. 31, 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 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 14 July 2015 to termination on 21 October 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
The allergens named in this record: milk, wheat.
Filed under fresh produce and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce 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 D & D Foods, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 7 other records name this firm.
All 8 records for D & D Foods, Inc.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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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