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Food Product Recalls

Food Product Recalls. What the Retail Food Industry Needs to Know about Food Recalls. Protect the consumers served by DENR-regulated facilities from potentially contaminated food!. The Role of NC DENR. Restaurants Food Stands Push Carts Mobile Food Units Hospitals

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Food Product Recalls

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  1. Food Product Recalls What the Retail Food Industry Needs to Know about Food Recalls

  2. Protect the consumers served by DENR-regulated facilities from potentially contaminated food! The Role of NC DENR

  3. Restaurants • Food Stands • Push Carts • Mobile Food Units • Hospitals • Long-Term Care Facilities • Elderly Nutrition Sites • Summer Feeding Sites • Nursing Homes • Residential Cares • Therapeutic Homes • Schools • Child Care Centers • Camps • Confinement Facilities • Lodging Facilities Regulated by NC DENR

  4. DHHS Department of Corrections • Division of Health Services Regulation • Hospitals • Nursing Homes • Long-Term Care Facilities • Residential Cares • Therapeutic Homes • Division of Child Development • Child Care Centers • Child Care Homes • Jails • Prisons Department of Public Instruction • Public Schools • Public School Lunchrooms *Licensing Agencies

  5. Site visits to selected locations • Likely to have purchased products • May serve highly susceptible population • Identify recalled products • Ensure that recalled products are removed from service Effectiveness Checks

  6. Maintain day‑to‑day awareness of new food product recalls • www.fda.gov • www.fsis.gov • Manufacturing companies • Distributing companies • media What Retail Food Establishments Need to Know

  7. Identify Recalled Products that you may have received • Product name, including all brand names and generic names • Product code numbers (such as lot/unit numbers, expiration dates, use‑by dates and UPC codes) • Product description (such as powder, liquid, ready‑to‑eat, expected shelf‑life, packaging type and size). What Retail Food Establishments Need to Know

  8. Remove Recalled Products from your facility • Including: all recalled food products and menu items containing the recalled products as ingredients • Segregate from other food products and returned to the vendor or destroy • Detailed instructions from the manufacturer or regulatory authority will specify the methods to use for product destruction What Retail Food Establishments Need to Know

  9. Develop a Plan • The plan (procedures) should include: • the person(s) responsible for receiving information on food product recalls • the procedures for how the information is communicated to key employees • the procedures by which the products are identified and removed from service, and • the procedures for how new, safe products will be put into inventory. What Retail Food Establishments Need to Know

  10. Cris Harrelson Food Defense Coordinator (910) 840-4607 Cris.harrelson@ncdenr.gov Contact Information

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