Take 2 Classic 18 oz, 24 ct/case; Take 2 Classic 20 oz, 22 ct/case; Take 2 Specialty…

It'll Be Pizza, LLC. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may be contaminated with foreign object (debris from packaging).

The record

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Product

Take 2 Classic 18 oz, 24 ct/case; Take 2 Classic 20 oz, 22 ct/case; Take 2 Specialty Traditional 20oz, 22ct/case frozen pizza dough manufactured by It'll Be Pizza

Reason for recall

Product may be contaminated with foreign object (debris from packaging).

Recalling firm

It'll Be Pizza, LLC.

Firm location

Sanford, Maine, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0202-2023

Quantity

1678 cases (total)

Distribution

ME, VT, MA, PA, NH

Initiated

6 December 2022

Reported by FDA

28 December 2022

Terminated

16 March 2023

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

" Take 2 Classic 18 oz, 24 ct/case: 233703 " Take 2 Classic 20 oz, 22 ct/case: 233626; 233627 " Take 2 Specialty Traditional 20oz, 22ct/case: 233737; 233738; 233739

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 7 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 7 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 7. All 7 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 6 December 2022 to termination on 16 March 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 5 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter 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: Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire. 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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 7 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 6 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.

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 It'll Be Pizza, LLC.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for It'll Be Pizza, LLC.

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