Sprouts, 32oz Organic Low Sodium Vegetable Broth
TreeHouse Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 January 2024 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. potential microbial contamination
The record
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- Product
- Sprouts, 32oz Organic Low Sodium Vegetable Broth
- Reason for recall
- potential microbial contamination
- Recalling firm
- TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
- Firm location
- Cambridge, Maryland, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0728-2024
- Quantity
- 439,240 cases total for all products
- Distribution
- Product Distributed to the following states: AL, AZ, AR,CA,CO,CT,DE,FL,GA,ID,IL,IN,IA,KS,KY,LA,ME,MD,MA,MI,MN,MS,MO,NH,NJ,NY,NC,OH,OR,PA,SC,TN,TX,UT,VA,WA,WI
- Initiated
- 21 September 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 24 January 2024
- Terminated
- 22 March 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Retail UPC: 646670312021 Lot Codes: 98C05162
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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. 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 15 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 21 September 2023 to termination on 22 March 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 36 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 about typical 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: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 14 other records name this firm.
All 15 records for TreeHouse Foods, Inc.
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