Fire-Roasted Bell Peppers and Onions Sold in 14 oz. package. Brand Name:Trader Joe's none

McCain Foods USA recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 October 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. During an internal audit at the manufacturing location, it was discovered that finished product had been released on numerous occasions after receiving presumptive positive test results for Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella; confirmation was not conducted.

The record

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Product

Fire-Roasted Bell Peppers and Onions Sold in 14 oz. package. Brand Name:Trader Joe's none

Reason for recall

During an internal audit at the manufacturing location, it was discovered that finished product had been released on numerous occasions after receiving presumptive positive test results for Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella; confirmation was not conducted.

Recalling firm

McCain Foods USA

Firm location

Oakbrook Ter, Illinois, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0226-2019

Quantity

217,161 lots

Distribution

US and Canada, China, Korea and Mexico

Initiated

13 October 2018

Reported by FDA

31 October 2018

Terminated

1 November 2019

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

All products shipped on or after January 1, 2016 Batch numbers: 1002005292 1002006793 1002008345 1002029464 1002033624 1002172690 1002174439 1002278131 1002330864 1002333347 1002362557 1002363966 1002365259 1002376745 1002393670 1002395027 1002397789 1002406296 1002409195 1002410561 1002411900 1002412694 1002414404 1002417483 1002430082 1002434685 1002436017 1002437343 1002438978 1001625856 1001626735 1001628774 1001655179 1001657045 1002002239 1002036336 1002073278 1002075879 1002112708 1002116109 1002129182 1002132208 1002135476 1002175955 1002177525 1002179124 1002214654 1002215986 1002249311 1002252131 1002278128 1002301185 1002304168 1002337569 1002339099 1002459016 1002460295 1002461572 1002483981 1002484998 1002499043 1002500380 1002534343 1002535727 1002538539 1002562362 1002563267 1002564678 1002578148 1002580882 1002582229 1002590556 1002615082 1002617136 1002631989 1002633518 1002640694 1002642074 1002653416 1002655517 1002757203 1002765154 1002767056 1002774530 1001569456 1001602927 1001676593 1001678244 1001684124 1001685552 1001711291 1001712984 1001729039 1001730669 1001763110 1001765493 1001782352 1001783682 1001807970 1001827062 1001843122 1001844600 1001851085 1001852471 1001883725 1001914690 1001916502

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 63 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 63 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 63. 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 63 of them.
• The recall ran for 13 months, from 13 October 2018 to termination on 1 November 2019. 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 3 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.

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 McCain Foods USA

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 71 other records name this firm.

All 72 records for McCain Foods USA

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