Whole Foods Market Dip Peach Salsa, UPC/PLU 029648300000 Whole Foods Market Scale-Salsa…

Whole Foods Market recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 December 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

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Reason for recall

The product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Whole Foods Market

Firm location

Austin, Texas, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0626-2015

Quantity

N/A

Distribution

All states where Whole Foods Market stores are located except Florida, Washington, and Oregon.

Initiated

23 July 2014

Reported by FDA

17 December 2014

Terminated

19 May 2015

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Sold between June 1 and July 21, 2014 at Whole Foods Stores

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 is one of 75 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 75 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 75. All 75 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 10 months, from 23 July 2014 to termination on 19 May 2015. 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 5 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 75 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 74 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

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 Whole Foods Market

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 316 other records name this firm.

All 317 records for Whole Foods Market

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