Dole 12 oz Garden Salad / Salade du Jardin UPC: 0-71430-01135-5 SKU: 2673 Dole 2 lb…

Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 2 March 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Harvest equipment used in harvesting raw iceberg lettuce was tested by Dole and found to contain Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Dole 12 oz Garden Salad / Salade du Jardin UPC: 0-71430-01135-5 SKU: 2673 Dole 2 lb Garden Salad UPC: 0-71430-01137-9 SKU 2504 Dole 24 oz Value Size Garden Salad UPC: 0-71430-01136-2 SKU 2109

UPC

071430011355

Reason for recall

Harvest equipment used in harvesting raw iceberg lettuce was tested by Dole and found to contain Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

Firm location

Monterey, California, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0769-2022

Quantity

OH/CA Total Distributed Combined: 578,243 cases

Distribution

Canada: AB, BC, NB, ON, QC, Sk; United States: AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI

Initiated

6 January 2022

Reported by FDA

2 March 2022

Terminated

22 March 2022

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Product codes beginning with W - Best by Dates of December 22, 2021 through January 9, 2022.

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 55 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 55 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 55. All 55 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 2 months, from 6 January 2022 to termination on 22 March 2022. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 55 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 54 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.

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 Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 229 other records name this firm.

All 230 records for Dole Fresh Vegetables Inc

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