Fresh Creative Cuisine White Label, Italian Finger Sandwiches Party Pack, Case of 4…

FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC dba Fresh Creative Cuisine recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 March 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. On 02/03/2023, FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC dba Fresh Creative Cuisine of Baltimore, MD is initiating a recall of various products sold from January 24, 2023 through January 30, 2023 because the products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes .

The record

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Product

Fresh Creative Cuisine White Label, Italian Finger Sandwiches Party Pack, Case of 4, Keep refrigerated

Reason for recall

On 02/03/2023, FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC dba Fresh Creative Cuisine of Baltimore, MD is initiating a recall of various products sold from January 24, 2023 through January 30, 2023 because the products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes .

Recalling firm

FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC dba Fresh Creative Cuisine

Firm location

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0166-2024

Quantity

9

Distribution

The recalled product was distributed to the following states: MD, PA, DE, NY, DC, NJ, NC, CT, SC, VA, MA .

Initiated

3 February 2023

Reported by FDA

22 March 2023

Terminated

17 October 2023

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

UPC Code : 20813141025986

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 409 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 409 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 409. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 409 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 3 February 2023 to termination on 17 October 2023. 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 a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.

Named in the distribution pattern: Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, District of Columbia, New Jersey, North Carolina, Connecticut, South Carolina, Virginia. 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 prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Other prepared meals and sandwiches 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 FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC dba Fresh Creative Cuisine

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 408 other records name this firm.

All 409 records for FRESH IDEATION FOOD GROUP, LLC dba Fresh Creative Cuisine

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