Little Salad Bar Asian Chopped Salad Kit Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Kale, Red…

Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 January 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Incorrect chemical added into wash systems when certain organic loads of vegetables start to create excessive foaming. The incorrect chemical added was a lot of foam detergent.

The record

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Product

Little Salad Bar Asian Chopped Salad Kit Green Cabbage, Green Leaf Lettuce, Kale, Red Cabbage, Carrots, Green Onion, Wonton Strips, Asian Sesame Dressing Sliced Almonds Salad & Toppings NET WT 9.5 OZ (269g) Dressing NET 2.2 FL OZ (66mL) Keep Refrigerated Perishable UPC 4099100086973 Also Sesame Asian Chopped Salad Kit under Peak Harvest by Lidl NET WT 12 OZ (340g) Salad & Toppings 9.5 OZ (269g) Dressing 2.2 FL OZ (65mL) UPC 4056489210450

UPC

4099100086973

Reason for recall

Incorrect chemical added into wash systems when certain organic loads of vegetables start to create excessive foaming. The incorrect chemical added was a lot of foam detergent.

Recalling firm

Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

Firm location

Monterey, California, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0240-2023

Quantity

6451 cases (total)

Distribution

U.S. distribution to the following: AL, CT, FL, GA, LA, MA, MD, NC, NY, PA, SC, VA No foreign distribution.

Initiated

28 November 2022

Reported by FDA

18 January 2023

Terminated

17 January 2023

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

N330001 and N330002 N330004

Reading this record

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

• Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. All 17 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 7 weeks, from 28 November 2022 to termination on 17 January 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 10 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 shorter 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: Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under fresh produce, nuts and seeds, snacks and confectionery and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 17 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 16 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 fresh produce recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 229 other records name this firm.

All 230 records for Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

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