--- Organic Baby Carrots --- Orangic Baby Peeled Carrots 13/3 BL; Orangic Baby Peeled…
Grimmway Enterprises, Inc. dba Grimmway Farms recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 January 2025 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with E. coli O121:H19
The record
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- Product
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- Reason for recall
- Potential contamination with E. coli O121:H19
- Recalling firm
- Grimmway Enterprises, Inc. dba Grimmway Farms
- Firm location
- Arvin, California, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0358-2025
- Quantity
- 218,705 cases
- Distribution
- Distribution Centers located in U.S. States: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI U.S. Territories: Puerto Rico Foreign Countries: Canada, United Arab Emirates, Hong Kong, Columbia
- Initiated
- 16 November 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 8 January 2025
- Terminated
- 21 February 2025
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 127730 127734 127773 127777 127784 127829 127830 127834 127871 127875 127932 127936 127974 127975 127978 127986 128032 128036 128059 128063 128129 128133 128159 128163 128238 128246 128251 128264 128274 128286 128291 128336 128346 128347 128351 128365 128383 128449 128482 128550 127773 127829 128059 128159 128482
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 5 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 5 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 5. 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 5 of them.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 16 November 2024 to termination on 21 February 2025. 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 38 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 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: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, Washington. 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
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
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 Grimmway Enterprises, Inc. dba Grimmway Farms
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 12 other records name this firm.
All 13 records for Grimmway Enterprises, Inc. dba Grimmway Farms
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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