Licorice Sticks sold under the following brand names: 1) Orange Patch Country Store…

Lehi Valley Trading Co. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 October 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. We were notified by American Licorice Co. through email that levels for lead above those allowed by the FDA were found during testing. We have voluntarily recalled our entire product purchased from them for the required time range.

The record

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Product

Licorice Sticks sold under the following brand names: 1) Orange Patch Country Store Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 2) Desert Delite Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 3) 17th Street Market Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 4) Flagstaff Farmers Market Farm Fresh Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 5) Farmers Market Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz., Packaged in plastic bag; 6) AJ's Fine Foods Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 7) Schneph Farms Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 8) Carlo's Produce Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 9) Emery's Berry Patch Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 10) Ben Becnel's Fruit Outlet Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 11) The Country Store Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 12) Woody's SmokehouseLicorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz and 12 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 13) Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site Licorice Sticks, 8 oz; 14) El Rancho Marketplace Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 15) Jacob Lake Inn Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz. Packaged in plastic bag; 16) S&T Enterprises Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 1 lb, Packaged in plastic bag; 17) Arizona Snack Company Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 18) Upchurch Candy Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 1 lb, Packaged in plastic bag; 19) Power Road Farmers Market Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 1 lb, Packaged in plastic bag; 20) Mountain Top Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 21) Linn's Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 22) Rosabella's Garden Bakery Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 4 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 23) DiiIorio Farms & Roadside Market Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 24) Foster's Product and Corn Maze Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 25) Carleton Farm ProduceLicorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz and 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 26) High Valley Orchard Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 27) Murray Farms Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 1 lb, Packaged in plastic bag; 28) Venison World.Com Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 29) Panorama Orchards, Inc. Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 30) Jay Country Store Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 1 lb, Packaged in plastic bag; 31) Klicker's Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 32) Rosie's Farm Market Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 33) Stowe Mercantile Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 34) Venice Gourmet Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 16 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 35) Ragged Point Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 4 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 36) Rawhide at Wild Horse Pass Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 37) Petty's Meat Market Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 38) Fly High with Pax Snax Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 39) Bulk Foods Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 40) Guantanamo Bay Gourmet Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 41) Newport Harbor Gourmet Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 42) Omni Resort Amelia Island Plantation Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 43) The Big Easy Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 12 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 44) Baker's Bay Associates Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 1 lb, Packaged in plastic bag; 45) Arizona Beagle Rescue Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 8 oz, Packaged in plastic bag; 46) Thomas Family Farm Licorice Sticks, New Wt, 4 oz, Packaged in plastic bag;

Reason for recall

We were notified by American Licorice Co. through email that levels for lead above those allowed by the FDA were found during testing. We have voluntarily recalled our entire product purchased from them for the required time range.

Recalling firm

Lehi Valley Trading Co.

Firm location

Mesa, Arizona, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0120-2013

Quantity

Amounts distributed are listed in code information.

Distribution

US States: AZ, NJ, NM, NJ, TX, LA, CA, WI, WA, VT, GA, and FL. No international distribution.

Initiated

6 September 2012

Reported by FDA

24 October 2012

Terminated

5 September 2013

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

1) Lot 0080245 and 0082378; 2) Lot 0080004; 3) Lot 0078721, 0085067, and 0081239; 4) 0079221, 0087572, 0084904, 0085398, 0086739, 0087046, 0084165, 0080870, 0080624, and 0082512; 5) Lot 0081294 and 0084453; 6) Lot 0086594, 0085743, 0083970, and 0078875; 7) Lot 0082198; 8) Lot 0085611; 9) Lot 0084498 and 0087230; 10) Lot 0079267l; 11) Lot 0086428, 0084609, 0083481; 0080971, and 0082505; 12) Lot 0087053, 0085253, 0082141,12 oz lots: 0082104, 0087463, 0085694, 0081038, 0084133; 13) Lot 0082299, 0082831, and 0086308; 14) Lot 0086200; 15) Lot 0083767; 16) Lot 0079247, 0079882, 0079656, 0080974, 0080424, 0080162, 0082436, 0081929, 0082184, 0081669, 0081406; 17) Lot 0081455, 0087359, and 0085778; 18) Lot 0084625; 19) Lot 0080277 and 0085536; 20) Lot 0081641; 21) Lot 0087089, 0085763, and 0083603; 22) Lot 0081624; 23) Lot 0084818; 24) Lot 0083720 and 0085577; 25) Lot 0084051, 0084446636, and 0082785; 26) Lot 0082692; 27) Lot 0083835; 28) Lot 0082977; 29) Lot 0087130; 30) Lot 0081515 and 0086922; 31) Lot 0085107; 32) Lot 0087178, 0084560, 0085493, and 0083401; 33) Lot 0085201 and 0086876; 34) Lot 0086301; 35) Lot 0084388 and 0080814; 36) Lot 0080394 and 0082341; 37) Lot 0086413; 38) Lot 0085563, 0082279, and 0081286; 39) Lot 0082916, 0080326, 0082012, 0079777, 0085413, 0087392, 0084263; 40) Lot 081277 and 0079762; 41) Lot 0081875; 42) Lot 0085390; 43) Lot 0082072; 44) Lot 0086147 and 0079417; 45) Lot 0082142; 46) Lot 0087501 Amounts distributed: 1) 24/12oz bags; 2) 36/12oz bags; 3) 120/16oz bags; 5) 72/8oz bags; 6) 48/16oz bags; 7) 24/8oz bags; 8) 12/16oz bags; 9) 24/16oz bags; 10) 24/8oz bags; 11) 60/12oz bags; 12) 72/18oz bags, 60/12oz bags; 13) 72/8oz bags; 14) 12/16oz bags; 15) 24/8oz bags; 16) 132/1lb bags; 17) 36/12oz bags; 18) 12/1lb bags; 19) 24/1lb bags; 20) 24/8oz bags; 21) 36/12oz bags; 22) 24/4oz bags; 23) 24/8oz bags; 24) 24/12oz bags; 25) 24/12oz and 72/8oz bags; 26) 12/16oz bags; 27) 24/1lb bags; 28) 24/8oz bags; 29) 24/8oz bags; 30) 24/1lb bags; 31) 12/16oz bags; 32) 96/8oz bags; 33) 24/16oz bags; 34) 12/16oz bags; 35) 48/4oz bags; 36) 48/8oz bags; 37) -; 38) 36/12oz bags; 39) 81/12oz bags; 40) 24/12oz bags; 41) 12/12oz bags; 42) 24/8oz bags; 43) 12/12oz bags; 44) 24/1lb bags; 45) -; 46: 24/4oz bags;

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 12 months, from 6 September 2012 to termination on 5 September 2013. 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 distribution pattern names 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: New Jersey, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, California, Wisconsin, Washington, Vermont, Georgia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce, meat and poultry, bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce recalls for the same reason

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. 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 Lehi Valley Trading Co.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.

All 10 records for Lehi Valley Trading Co.

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