Brussel Sprouts 98.5% of product was packaged for retail and 110 cases were bulk Brands…

4 Earth Farms formerly Mcl Fresh Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 March 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Organic Brussel Sprouts tested positive for Chlorpyrifos by the State of California

The record

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Product

Brussel Sprouts 98.5% of product was packaged for retail and 110 cases were bulk Brands: 4 Earth Farms, Trader Joe s, Wegman s, O Organics, STO Kroger. Unit size: 2lbs (plastic bag), 1lbs (mesh bag and plastic bag), 14 oz (plastic bag), 12 oz (plastic bag), 10 oz (plastic bag), 10 lbs (carton box), 25 lbs (carton box). Containers:Plastic bag, mesh bag, and carton box.

Reason for recall

Organic Brussel Sprouts tested positive for Chlorpyrifos by the State of California

Recalling firm

4 Earth Farms formerly Mcl Fresh Inc

Firm location

Commerce, California, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0414-2023

Quantity

7,135 finished cases

Distribution

California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Arizona, Colorado, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Maryland, Washington, Utah, Texas, New Jersey, Colorado, Canada (Toronto), Wyoming, South Carolina, Maine, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, Nevada, Tennessee, North Carolina, Nebraska, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Michigan.

Initiated

2 February 2023

Reported by FDA

15 March 2023

Terminated

13 March 2023

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Best by 02/04/23, 02/08/23, 02/09/23, 02/10/23, 02/12/23.

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 weeks, from 2 February 2023 to termination on 13 March 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 6 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.

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 4 Earth Farms formerly Mcl Fresh Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.

All 10 records for 4 Earth Farms formerly Mcl Fresh Inc

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