Bulk Frozen Cases: The 9" Vegan Pumpkin Pie bulk case has UPC 22518 84081 and the label…
Willamette Valley Pie Company, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 December 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Foreign object
The record
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- Product
- Bulk Frozen Cases: The 9" Vegan Pumpkin Pie bulk case has UPC 22518 84081 and the label is read in parts: 9" Vegan Pumpkin Pie WFM, BAKED BULK, 6 units/case. KEEP FROZEN - TRANSPORT AND STORE AT LESS THAN ZERO DEGREES F. Just Thaw and serve. Remove from freezer, removed plastic wrap, and let thaw in REFRIGERATOR overnight. Please keep refrigerated. NOT SHELF STABLE. Willamette Valley Pie Company 1651 Eska Way, Silverton, OR 97381. Individual Retail Packages: Whole Foods Market - Vegan Pumpkin Pie, net Wt. 1lb 12oz (794g) packaged in window box or plastic clamshell. Whole Foods Market - Vegan Pumpkin Pie Half, net wt. 13 oz. (369g); packaged in plastic clamshell. Whole Foods Market - Vegan Pumpkin Pie Slice, net wt. 4 oz. (113g); packaged in plastic clamshell.
- UPC
- 2251884081
- Reason for recall
- Foreign object
- Recalling firm
- Willamette Valley Pie Company, LLC
- Firm location
- Silverton, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0639-2024
- Quantity
- 254 cases; 6 pies per case; 1,524 pies.
- Distribution
- Distributed in CA, IL, IN, KY, MI, MN, MO, NV, OH, OR, WA and WI.
- Initiated
- 21 November 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 27 December 2023
- Terminated
- 17 January 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Bulk Packages have the affected lot code 625223, Best By 09/09/24. Whole Foods Market retail packages have the Sell By 11 25 23. WVPC Lot Code: 6-digit code that indicates the line, date made, and shift. For example: 610216; 6=Line, 102=Julian Date, 1=Shift, 6=Year
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 8 weeks, from 21 November 2023 to termination on 17 January 2024. 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 11 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fish or seafood run a median of 5 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, 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, bakery 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 Willamette Valley Pie Company, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 7 other records name this firm.
All 8 records for Willamette Valley Pie Company, 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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