Rancheros, sold under brand Heather's Choice. The product is labeled in parts…
Heather's Choice recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 November 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Heather's Choice Rancheros is being recalled because the firm operated without a permit and lack a HACCP plan.
The record
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- Product
- Rancheros, sold under brand Heather's Choice. The product is labeled in parts: "***Rancheros***HEATHER'S CHOICE***meals for adventuring***ingredients: bison + yams + tomatoes + onions + tomatillos + garlic + jalapenos + green bell peppers***directions: cover food with hot water + let sit for 15 minutes***".
- Reason for recall
- Heather's Choice Rancheros is being recalled because the firm operated without a permit and lack a HACCP plan.
- Recalling firm
- Heather's Choice
- Firm location
- Anchorage, Alaska, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0098-2015
- Quantity
- 12 units
- Distribution
- sold interstate via internet sale from the website: http://www.heatherschoice.com
- Initiated
- 1 October 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 5 November 2014
- Terminated
- 25 November 2014
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Expiration date: September 2015
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 8 weeks, from 1 October 2014 to termination on 25 November 2014. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-05 | Salmon Chowder, sold under brand Heather's Choice. The product is labeled in parts: "***Salmon Chowder***HEATHER'S CHOICE***meals for adventuring***ingredients: salmon + peas + carrots + potatoes+ coconut milk powder***directions: cover food with hot water + let sit for 15 minutes***". | Heather's Choice | Heather's Choice Salmon Chowder is being recalled because the firm operated without a permit and lack a HACCP plan. This product also contains undeclared coconut. | Class II |
Other fresh produce recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Other records from Heather's Choice
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-11-05 | Salmon Chowder, sold under brand Heather's Choice. The product is labeled in parts: "***Salmon Chowder***HEATHER'S CHOICE***meals for adventuring***ingredients: salmon + peas + carrots + potatoes+ coconut milk powder***directions: cover food with hot water + let sit for 15 minutes***". | Heather's Choice | Heather's Choice Salmon Chowder is being recalled because the firm operated without a permit and lack a HACCP plan. This product also contains undeclared coconut. | Class II |
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