chapter 15

Question 1

What is a recall?
What are the three types?
When a company issue a recall?

Answer 1

1. A recall is when a violative food product is removed from the market
2. Class I- When product being recalled will most likely cause serious or fatal adverse health effects
   Class II- The product may cause contains adverse health effects but is rarely serious
3. Class III-The product is not likely to cause any adverse health effects

Question 2

What is the recall plan required for?
What format should it be in?
What steps must it take to assign responsibility to?

Answer 2

• For any food product that contains a hazard that requires a preventive control
• Must be written before hazard occurs
• Must assign responsibility to specific team members to take the following steps:
• Notify the public (only in class I)
• Notify customers and consignees and how to return or dispose of product
• Conduct effectiveness checks
• Carry out disposition of food»get rid of it

Question 3

What are some common elements of a recall plan

Answer 3

1. Defined roles and responsibilities
2. Which lot it is and where it’s located
3. contact lists
   - public
   - customers and consignees
   - regulatory agencies
4. effectiveness check procedures
5. product disposition procedure

Question 4

Before implementing a recall plan who do you need

Answer 4

1. recall coordinator and recall team

2. Document listing responsibilities of each team member

Question 5

How to identify who is responsible for what?

Answer 5

Clearly describe the steps that need to be done and who in the recall team should be responsible for each one.

Question 6

What are the three steps of external notification:

Answer 6

1. consult the public
2. consult customers and consignees
3. regulatory agencies

Question 7

What are the steps to identifying and verifying lot info?

Answer 7

Identify product in lot with specific identification markings in the

• inner packaging
• outer packaging
• case (?)

-identify the number of products involved in the recall»need to be retrieved»>Effectiveness equation:

Question 8

How is effectiveness carried out?

How to measure recall effectiveness?

Answer 8

• daily counting of number of products retrieved vs. total amount
• effectiveness equation: (# of cases recovered/ total cases recovered)
• regulatory audits-observation by the FDA
• follow up with customers and consignees
• regulatory audits

Question 9

How to determine the way the product is going to be disposed of?
What are the different types of methods?

Answer 9

1. Determined based on the hazard, the food and etc.
2. -Reworking
   
   • Reconditioning
   • diverting to different use which does not pose a saftey concern
   • relabeling
   • destroying

Question 10

What are the steps to take corrective action after a recall?

Answer 10

1. reanalyze the food saftey plan
   -modify it
   -retraining of team members
   -other actions to prevent the problem from occurring again
   -Maintain a log of decisions made during the recall plan
   -conduct a review meeting after recall
   conduct a corrective action meeting