Mixes Salsa/Mango Pineapple, Ready To Eat Product, 2, 5-lb Trays per case

FreshPoint Central Florida recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 November 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Coast Citrus Distributors, Inc. and its divisions Coast Tropical and Olympic Fruit & Vegetables are conducting a voluntary product recall of Kent's brand & Keitt's brand mangoes packed at Agricola Daniella due to salmonella associated with mangoes from this producer.

The record

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Product

Mixes Salsa/Mango Pineapple, Ready To Eat Product, 2, 5-lb Trays per case

Reason for recall

Coast Citrus Distributors, Inc. and its divisions Coast Tropical and Olympic Fruit & Vegetables are conducting a voluntary product recall of Kent's brand & Keitt's brand mangoes packed at Agricola Daniella due to salmonella associated with mangoes from this producer.

Recalling firm

FreshPoint Central Florida

Firm location

Orlando, Florida, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0611-2013

Quantity

4 trays / 2/5#

Distribution

Florida

Initiated

25 September 2012

Reported by FDA

14 November 2012

Terminated

31 May 2013

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Item Number 481870

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 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 25 September 2012 to termination on 31 May 2013. 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 7 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce and sauces, dips and condiments. 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 FreshPoint Central Florida

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 22 other records name this firm.

All 23 records for FreshPoint Central Florida

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