Zatarain's New Orleans Style RED BEANS AND RICE, ORIGINAL, NET WT 8 OZ, UPC 7142909849
Zatarain's Partnership, L.P. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 February 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Zatarain's is initiating a voluntary recall of Zatarain's Red Beans And Rice Original 8 oz. package, USPC 7142909849 with date code of BEST BY JUL 31 16Z as it may contain Creamy Parmesan Rice Mix which has a dairy allergen (milk).
The record
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- Product
- Zatarain's New Orleans Style RED BEANS AND RICE, ORIGINAL, NET WT 8 OZ, UPC 7142909849
- UPC
- 7142909849
- Reason for recall
- Zatarain's is initiating a voluntary recall of Zatarain's Red Beans And Rice Original 8 oz. package, USPC 7142909849 with date code of BEST BY JUL 31 16Z as it may contain Creamy Parmesan Rice Mix which has a dairy allergen (milk).
- Recalling firm
- Zatarain's Partnership, L.P.
- Firm location
- Gretna, Louisiana, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0462-2016
- Quantity
- 1656 units
- Distribution
- Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin
- Initiated
- 17 December 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 10 February 2016
- Terminated
- 31 October 2016
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- BEST BY JUL 31 16Z
Reading this record
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- 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 10 months, from 17 December 2015 to termination on 31 October 2016. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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