Rakkyo (scallions) distributed in un-labeled plastic containers 8oz and/or 12oz.
Lemonland Food Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 April 2023 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Rakkyo was removed because the firm provided the updated ingredients statement to consignees. Product does not contain any allergens.
The record
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- Product
- Rakkyo (scallions) distributed in un-labeled plastic containers 8oz and/or 12oz. Containers were then labeled at H-mart, G-mart, or M2M retail store.
- Reason for recall
- Rakkyo was removed because the firm provided the updated ingredients statement to consignees. Product does not contain any allergens.
- Recalling firm
- Lemonland Food Corp
- Firm location
- Kent, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0671-2023
- Quantity
- 12oz containers = 28.12 lb; 8oz containers = Firm did not report quantity.
- Distribution
- Distributed in Washington
- Initiated
- 23 February 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 5 April 2023
- Terminated
- 29 March 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Feb. 16, 2023 to Feb. 23, 2023.
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 31 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 31 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 31. 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 31 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 weeks, from 23 February 2023 to termination on 29 March 2023. 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 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Other records from Lemonland Food Corp
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 43 other records name this firm.
All 44 records for Lemonland Food Corp
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