#073 Fruit Cup: Cantalope Honeydew 15.8 ounces

Spartan Central Kitchen recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 October 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. During an FDA inspection, microbiological swabs were collected and the results found that 21 sub samples in zones 1, 2 & 3 are positive for Listeria Monocytogenes (L.M.), Listeria innocua (L.I.) or Listeria seeligeri (L.S.). The firm is voluntarily recalling all products manufactured from August 20th to September 10th 2012 due to the possible contamination. All lots with sell by dates on or before

The record

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Product

#073 Fruit Cup: Cantalope Honeydew 15.8 ounces

Reason for recall

During an FDA inspection, microbiological swabs were collected and the results found that 21 sub samples in zones 1, 2 & 3 are positive for Listeria Monocytogenes (L.M.), Listeria innocua (L.I.) or Listeria seeligeri (L.S.). The firm is voluntarily recalling all products manufactured from August 20th to September 10th 2012 due to the possible contamination. All lots with sell by dates on or before

Recalling firm

Spartan Central Kitchen

Firm location

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0264-2013

Quantity

560

Distribution

MI and OH only.

Initiated

10 September 2012

Reported by FDA

24 October 2012

Terminated

19 February 2013

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

All with sell by dates on or before 15-Sep with UPC 0-11213-90462

Reading this record

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• 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 139 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 139 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 139. 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 139 of them.
• The recall ran for 5 months, from 10 September 2012 to termination on 19 February 2013. 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

What this recall was for

Other records from Spartan Central Kitchen

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