Kroger (QFC and Fred Meyer) brand, Broccoli Floret KFK, Net wt. 8 oz , UPC 8 2676618506…
Mary's Harvest Fresh Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 August 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product is recalled due to potential contamination with E.coli O26.
The record
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Product
Kroger (QFC and Fred Meyer) brand, Broccoli Floret KFK, Net wt. 8 oz , UPC 8 2676618506 1. Kroger Main & Vine brand, Broccoli Floret, Net wt. 8 oz, UPC 8 2676618750 8. Mary's Harvest brand, Broccoli Buds or Broccoli Florette, Net wt. 16 oz, UPC 8 8724180456 3. Mary's Harvest brand, Broccoli Buds Pizza Cut, Net wt. 3 lb. No UPC. Mary's Harvest brand, Broccoli Buds Pizza Cut, 6/3 lb. packages per case. No UPC. Mary's Harvest brand, Broccoli Florette, net wt. 12 oz. UPC 8 8724180789 2. Ingredients Statement: Broccoli
UPC
826766185061
Reason for recall
Product is recalled due to potential contamination with E.coli O26.
1089/8 oz. packages; 1 case (6/16 oz packages); 3/3 lb. cases; 27 cases (6/3 lb. packages); 1 case (6/12 oz. packages)
Distribution
distributed in OR and WA
Initiated
3 August 2017
Reported by FDA
30 August 2017
Terminated
30 August 2017
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
Broccoli FLORET KFK 8 oz, Use by: 8/5/17-8/8/17. Broccoli FLORET 8 oz, Use by: 8/5/17- 8/8/17. Broccoli Buds or BROCCOLI FLORETTE 6/16 oz, Use by: 8/10/17. Broccoli Buds PIZZA CUT 3 lb., Packed on: 8/1/17. Broccoli Buds PIZZA CUT 6/3 lb, Packed on: 7/31/17- 8/2/17. Broccoli Florette 6/12oz, Use by: 8/11/17.
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 18 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 18 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 18. All 18 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 4 weeks, from 3 August 2017 to termination on 30 August 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 distribution pattern names 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli 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 120
Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
The FDA opened 18 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 17 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.
Product is recalled due to potential contamination with E.coli O26.
Class II
Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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.
Twin Sisters Creamery's recall of cheese products due to WSDA testing that identified potential STEC and E. coli O103 contamination. Whole Foods Market received affected products through distributor Peterson Company and sold them by weight with store-generated labels.
Twin Sisters Creamery's recall of cheese products due to WSDA testing that identified potential STEC and E. coli O103 contamination. Whole Foods Market received affected products through distributor Peterson Company and sold them by weight with store-generated labels.
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.
