Del Monte brand Better Break Zesty Green Chili; Vegetables in a Fresh and Tangy Green…

Mann Packing Company, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 November 2019 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. CFIA notified FDA of positive result for Listeria monocytogenes with various best by dates of Sweet Kale Salad Blend.

The record

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Product

Del Monte brand Better Break Zesty Green Chili; Vegetables in a Fresh and Tangy Green Chili Sauce. UPC 717524671028 7 oz. container 6 x 7 oz. per carton

UPC

7175246710287

Reason for recall

CFIA notified FDA of positive result for Listeria monocytogenes with various best by dates of Sweet Kale Salad Blend.

Recalling firm

Mann Packing Company, Inc.

Firm location

Salinas, California, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0247-2020

Quantity

Total: 1,286,466 cases - US,. 141,030 cartons Canada

Distribution

US and Canada and Japan

Initiated

3 November 2019

Reported by FDA

27 November 2019

Terminated

6 April 2023

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Best If Enjoyed By date of October 11, 2019 to November 16, 2019

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 58 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 58 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 58. 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 58 of them.
• The recall ran for 3.4 years, from 3 November 2019 to termination on 6 April 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.

What this recall was for

Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 Mann Packing Company, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 103 other records name this firm.

All 104 records for Mann Packing Company, Inc.

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