whole fresh American cucumbers packaged in bulk cardboard containers labeled with the…
BALOIAN 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. Cucumbers potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
The record
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- Product
- whole fresh American cucumbers packaged in bulk cardboard containers labeled with the "Pamela" brand, a generic white box with a sticker that provides the implicated grower's name, "Agrotato, S.A. de C.V.," or a clear PamPak branded bag of 6 individual cucumbers with the UPC 8 2540107010 6 " Pamela (Bulk Pack 24ct, 36ct, Small, Large, Plain, Select and Super Select) Distributed to Wholesale, Food Service, Retail, and Brokers " Stock "Vegetables" (Bulk Pack 24ct, 36ct, Small, Large, Plain, Select and Super Select) Distributed to Wholesale, Food Service, Retail and Brokers " PamPak (6x6 Bagged Cucumbers) with UPC code:825401070106 Distributed to 2 Wholesale distributers (3 locations) Pamela (24 Ct, 36 Ct, Plain, Large, Select, Super Select, Small) Stock Vegetables (Plain, Large, Select, Super Select, Small) PamPak (6x6ct Bag Pack) Case Label GTIN: 10825401300514
- UPC
- 825401070106
- Reason for recall
- Cucumbers potentially contaminated with Salmonella.
- Recalling firm
- BALOIAN FARMS
- Firm location
- Nogales, Arizona, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0373-2025
- Quantity
- 40,043 cases
- Distribution
- Distributed to the following states: AK, AZ, CA, CO, IA, ID, KS, MA, MI, MO, MT, NV, NY, NC, OR, TX, WA, and WI.
- Initiated
- 29 November 2024
- Reported by FDA
- 8 January 2025
- Terminated
- 23 May 2025
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- No codes or PLU labels are applied to individual cucumbers. Lot Number (Master Case) Qty (Cases) Ship Date 3-58614 71 cases 10/25/2024 3-58642 180 cases 10/18/2024 3-28729 16 cases 10/24/2024 3-58857 64 cases 11/01/2024 3-58866 70 cases 11/04/2024 3-58891 162 cases 11/05/2024 3-58919 14 cases 10/07/2024 3-58943 92 cases 11/08/2024 3-58984 34 cases 11/12/2024 3-59020 42 cases 11/12/2024 The consumer bag has a UPC code of: 825401070106
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 29 November 2024 to termination on 23 May 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 17 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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: Arizona, California, Colorado, Iowa, Idaho, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin. 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
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
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.
All 2025 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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