Margaret Holmes Mixed Greens 14.5 oz, Distributed by McCall Farms, Effingham, SC

Mccall Farms Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 December 2014 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Swollen Cans; Firm received complaints of illnesses due to consumption of recalled products.

The record

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Product

Margaret Holmes Mixed Greens 14.5 oz, Distributed by McCall Farms, Effingham, SC

Reason for recall

Swollen Cans; Firm received complaints of illnesses due to consumption of recalled products.

Recalling firm

Mccall Farms Inc

Firm location

Effingham, South Carolina, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0702-2015

Quantity

1,843 cases (12/14.5oz can per case)

Distribution

DC, GA, MD, NC, NJ, SC, PA, TN and VA.

Initiated

22 August 2014

Reported by FDA

17 December 2014

Terminated

23 January 2017

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Can Code: F13EX

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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
• The recall ran for 2.4 years, from 22 August 2014 to termination on 23 January 2017. 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 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: District of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, New Jersey, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia. 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

Filed under fresh produce. 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 Mccall Farms Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 4 records for Mccall Farms Inc

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