Chicken Salad on White Bread, Net Wt. 4.00 oz., UPC 7-01248-00104-9, MFG Code 105…

SunBurst Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 February 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Listeria monocytogenes

The record

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Product

Chicken Salad on White Bread, Net Wt. 4.00 oz., UPC 7-01248-00104-9, MFG Code 105; Deluxe Chicken Salad on Toast, Net Wt. 5.00 oz., UPC 7-01248-01019-5, MFG Code 1716; Chicken Salad on White, Net Wt. 4.30 oz., UPC 7-01248-01101-7, MFG Code 1817

UPC

701248001049

Reason for recall

Listeria monocytogenes

Recalling firm

SunBurst Foods, Inc.

Firm location

Goldsboro, North Carolina, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0803-2015

Quantity

N/A

Distribution

NC, NJ & SC

Initiated

10 October 2014

Reported by FDA

4 February 2015

Terminated

18 June 2015

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

See product description for lot numbers

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 121 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 121 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 121. All 121 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 10 October 2014 to termination on 18 June 2015. 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 1 state, 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce, meat and poultry and bakery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 121 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 120 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 SunBurst Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 120 other records name this firm.

All 121 records for SunBurst Foods, Inc.

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