潜水简介:
- Conagra扩大了召回of chicken and beef P.F. Chang’s brand entree products by another 191,791 pounds. That increases the original July 6 recall from 3,806 pounds to a total of 195,597 pounds.
- The recall is due to potential contamination of foreign objects, specifically metal fragments an employee observed during processing. The employee was dispensing sugar from a supplier into the frozen product's sauce.
- No injuries have been reported related to the metal pieces contamination.
Dive Insight:
ConAgra received notification from the sugar supplier that the FDA had recalled由于金属碎片的可能污染，多生产大量糖。Conagra有可能在FSIS受调节产品中使用了这些糖批，这促使Conagra扩大了初始召回。
ConAgra's recall differs from other recent major recalls that were due to metal fragment contamination, as they are often caused by the manufacturer's own equipment malfunctions during processing.
2015年3月，卡夫（Heinz之前的合并）召回了650万箱of its Kraft Macaroni & Cheese Dinner productafter "a piece of stainless steel got wedged in a metal piece of equipment, which may have generated friction that resulted in small pieces of metal potentially falling into the product," a company spokesperson在一份声明中说.
去年9月，桑德森农场recalled 550,000 pounds of chickenthat may have been contaminated with metal shavings caused by an ice-making machine that malfunctioned during production.
In those cases, equipment monitoring and maintenance may have fixed or prevented the metal fragment contamination. With the types of equipment involved in food and beverage processing, product contaminations from fragments of metal, glass, or plastic are not unheard of.
But for ConAgra, its recall stemmed from a metal fragment contamination that happened during an ingredient supplier's processing instead of its own. This is a reminder to manufacturers of how important it is to ensure they are aware of the operational and safety procedures their suppliers implement in addition to their own. Any issue with a product's ingredients will still resonate with the manufacturer's brand in the minds of consumers.
