CU-W-Whole Cucumbers (1/6 CT Bag) KEEP REFRIGERATED Made by: Vaughan Foods, Moore, OK…

Vaughan Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 November 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

The record

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Product

CU-W-Whole Cucumbers (1/6 CT Bag) KEEP REFRIGERATED Made by: Vaughan Foods, Moore, OK 73160; Whole Cucumbers 1/5-LB NET WT: 5 LB Distributed by: US Foods, Inc. Rosemont, IL 60018 PRODUCE OF USA & MEXICO

Reason for recall

Potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

Recalling firm

Vaughan Foods

Firm location

Moore, Oklahoma, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0214-2016

Quantity

249 cases

Distribution

TX, OK, MS, AR, KS, MO

Initiated

6 September 2015

Reported by FDA

25 November 2015

Terminated

19 October 2016

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

item # 07419 and 09256; UPC code: 718129074191 and 718129092560

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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
• The recall ran for 13 months, from 6 September 2015 to termination on 19 October 2016. 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 6 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months 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: Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri. 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. 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 Vaughan Foods

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 5 records for Vaughan Foods

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