Mediterranean Olives: Cracked Cerignole, produced by Bel Frantoio and packaged in 34-oz.
Ocean State Jobbers, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 December 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product stored at room temperature not as per label instructions "Keep refrigerated"
The record
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Product
Mediterranean Olives: Cracked Cerignole, produced by Bel Frantoio and packaged in 34-oz. plastic containers. Imported from Italy
Reason for recall
Product stored at room temperature not as per label instructions "Keep refrigerated"
Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine, New York
Initiated
28 June 2013
Reported by FDA
11 December 2013
Terminated
18 July 2019
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
All lot numbers 297-2012 342-2012 038-2013 039-2013 065-2013
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 11 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 11 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 11. All 11 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 6.1 years, from 28 June 2013 to termination on 18 July 2019. 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.
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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 11 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 10 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.
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