Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc FDA recall records

The FDA has published 230 food recall enforcement records naming Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc between 2012 and 2024, covering 27 separate recall events. The firm is recorded in California. Data last updated 2 September 2026.

Records of 29,386

230

Share of all recalls

0.8%

Class I of 230

204

Reported between

2012 to 2024

What is different about Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

The hazard that separates Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc from the national picture is listeria monocytogenes: 63.5% of these records name it, against 25.5% of all FDA food recalls.

By product, Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc is weighted toward fresh produce: 57% of the records here against 23.5% across the corpus.

Recalls at Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc are more often the serious kind: 88.7% are Class I, where the FDA judges there is a reasonable probability of serious health consequences, against 44% of all records.

A recall at Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc stays open a median of 75 days between the report and termination, against 215 days for the corpus as a whole. Termination follows the firm accounting for every unit of the affected lot.

A single recall here covers far more records than usual: 8.5 enforcement records per FDA event, against 3.7 across the corpus. The agency opens one record per product code, so this is a sign of broad product lines rather than of repeated failures.

The volume is falling: 23 records in the three years to 2025, against 148 in the four before them. 2026 is excluded because the agency reports an enforcement action months after a firm begins a recall, so the most recent year is always incomplete.

What these records are

Every record on this page was published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. 230 records cover 27 recall events, because the agency opens one record per product code: a single recall of a product line with many codes appears here many times.

204 of these records are Class I, 4 Class II and 22 Class III. A recall count is not a safety score. Most FDA food recalls are initiated by the firm itself, and a recall is the firm removing product from the market, which is what a food safety plan is built to produce.

What was recalled for

A single record can name more than one hazard, so these counts overlap.

• Listeria monocytogenes146
• Undeclared allergens5
• Salmonella3
• E. coli2
• Foreign material1
• Chemical contamination1

By year

Counts are by the date the FDA reported the enforcement action. That date runs behind the date a firm started a recall, so the most recent year is always partial.

Where the recalling firms are

The state is the location of the recalling firm, not where the product was sold. Distribution is recorded separately on each record.

• California230

Most recently reported

Questions

How many FDA recalls has Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc had?

The FDA has published 230 food recall enforcement records naming Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc between 2012 and 2024. Those records cover 27 separate recall events: the agency opens one record per product code, so one recall of a product line appears as many records.

Does a high recall count mean a firm is unsafe?

Not on its own. Most FDA food recalls are initiated voluntarily by the firm, and a recall is the firm removing product from the market, which is what a working food safety plan is supposed to produce. Record counts also scale with the number of product codes a firm carries rather than with the number of things that went wrong.

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