FRESH TO YOU Turkey & Sundried Tomato Mayo Pita, Net Wt. 8.29oz (235g), MG Foods…

Canteen Inc. dba MG Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 April 2021 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm received positive test results for Listeria monocytogenes during in house environmental sampling on one of their meat slicers.

The record

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Product

FRESH TO YOU Turkey & Sundried Tomato Mayo Pita, Net Wt. 8.29oz (235g), MG Foods Charlotte, NC 28208, UPC MGF9806

Reason for recall

The firm received positive test results for Listeria monocytogenes during in house environmental sampling on one of their meat slicers.

Recalling firm

Canteen Inc. dba MG Foods, Inc.

Firm location

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Ongoing

Recall number

F-0405-2021

Quantity

6 Sandwiches

Distribution

Product was shipped to the following states: GA, NC, SC & WV.

Initiated

2 March 2021

Reported by FDA

14 April 2021

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Fresh Thru 03/07/21

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 31 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 31 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 31. 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 31 of them.
• This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
• The distribution pattern names 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce and meat and poultry. 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 Canteen Inc. dba MG Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 30 other records name this firm.

All 31 records for Canteen Inc. dba MG Foods, Inc.

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