1.) Market Pantry Soup & Oyster Crackers, NET WT 9 OZ (255g), packaged in flexible…
Shearer's Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 March 2025 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential foreign material (stainless steel wire)
The record
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- Product
- 1.) Market Pantry Soup & Oyster Crackers, NET WT 9 OZ (255g), packaged in flexible plastic bags, 12 count per case, Distributed By: Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN 55403 2.) Great Value Soup & Oyster Crackers, NET WT 9 OZ (255g), packaged in flexible plastic bags, 12 count per case, Distributed By: Walmart, Inc., Bentonville, AR 72716 3.) Giant Eagle Oyster Crackers, NET WT 9 OZ (255g), packaged in flexible plastic bags, 12 count per case, Distributed By: Giant Eagle, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA 15238 4.) VISTA Soup & Oyster Crackers, NET WT 12 OZ (340g), packaged in flexible plastic bags, 12 count per case, Manufactured By: Shearer's Foods LLC, 100 Lincoln Way East, Massillon, OH 44646 5.) 20lb. Bulk Oyster Crackers, NET WT. 20 LBS., packaged in 20 lb. bulk bag-in-box (not for sale at retail)
- Reason for recall
- Potential foreign material (stainless steel wire)
- Recalling firm
- Shearer's Foods, LLC
- Firm location
- Massillon, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0622-2025
- Quantity
- 1.) 3330 cases; 2.) 9720 cases; 3.) 990 cases; 4.) 1440 cases; 5.) 394 cases; 15874 cases TOTAL
- Distribution
- Product distributed to customers in the following states: AL, CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA, and WI.
- Initiated
- 21 February 2025
- Reported by FDA
- 19 March 2025
- Terminated
- 12 August 2025
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- 1.) Market Pantry Soup & Oyster Crackers - UPC: 085239114933; Sell By Date: 23MAY2025 and Code Date: 23MAY2025BC06, Sell By Date: 24MAY2025 and Code Date: 24MAY2025BA06 2.) Great Value Soup & Oyster Crackers - UPC: 078742085494; Sell By Date: MAY23 2025; Code Date: MAY 23 2025 ABO6, MAY 23 2025 BBO6, MAY 23 2025 CBO6 3.) Giant Eagle Oyster Crackers - UPC: 030034915087; Best By Date: MAY24 2025; Code Date: MAY 24 25 AB06 4.) VISTA Soup & Oyster Crackers - UPC: 045100008006; Best By Date: MAY24 2025; Code Date: MAY 24 25 AB06 5.) 20lb. Bulk Oyster Crackers - UPC: 10045100400203; Best By: MAY24 2025; Code Date: MAY 24 25 AB06, MAY 24 25 BB06
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 21 February 2025 to termination on 12 August 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 23 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Fish and fishery products are the one food category with their own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 123, because the hazards are species-specific: histamine in scombroid fish, ciguatera in reef fish, and Listeria in cold-smoked products.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia, 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under fish and seafood, snacks and confectionery and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fish and seafood 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 Shearer's Foods, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-24 | Great Value Twist & Shout Strawberry Creme Sandwich Cookies, Net WT 15.35 oz. box containing film wrapped trays of stacked cookies. 12 boxes per case. | Shearer's Foods, LLC | May contain foreign material (plastic) | Class II |
| 2023-05-31 | Great Value Kettle Cooked Lightly Salted Potato Chips packaged in 8oz individual plastic bags - 8 bags per case | Shearer's Foods, LLC | Product packaged into incorrect labeling resulting in undeclared milk protein | Class II |
All 3 records for Shearer's Foods, LLC
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21 CFR 117.40 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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