Garden-Fresh, Onions Diced 1/4", 4/5 lb., 0 11596 50301 2, 11/1/2013 - 11/4/2013…

Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 December 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling various cut vegetables, ready-to-eat salads, slaw, spread and dip products sold under various brands and code dates manufactured prior to November 06, 2013 because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Garden-Fresh, Onions Diced 1/4", 4/5 lb., 0 11596 50301 2, 11/1/2013 - 11/4/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Diced 1/4", 1/5 lb., 0 11596 50302 8, 11/11/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Diced 1/4", 1/2.5 lb., 0 11596 50304 2, 10/31/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Diced 1/4", 2/5 lb., 0 11596 50306 6 , 11/9/2013; Garden-Fresh Onions Diced 3/8", 1/5 lb., 0 11596 50305 9, 10/30/2013 - 11/6/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Diced 3/8", 2/5 lb., 0 11596 50329 5, 10/30/2013 - 11/6/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Julienne Cut, 2/2.5 lb., 0 11596 50321 9, 11/6/2013 - 11/11/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Julienne Cut, 2/5 lb., 0 11596 50340 0, 10/29/2013 - 11/1/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Sliced 1/4", 2/5 lb., 0 11596 50314 , 10/29/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Sliced 3/16", 1/5 lb., 0 11596 50310 5 , 11/10/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Sliced 3/16", 2/5 lb., 0 11596 50311 0, 10/31/2013 - 11/1/2013; Garden-Fresh, Onions Slivered, 1/5 lb., 0 11596 50315 8, 10/30/2013 - 11/6/2013; ;

Reason for recall

Garden-Fresh Foods is recalling various cut vegetables, ready-to-eat salads, slaw, spread and dip products sold under various brands and code dates manufactured prior to November 06, 2013 because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.

Firm location

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0992-2014

Quantity

919,616.31 total pounds, for all products

Distribution

IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, OH, PA, WI.

Initiated

7 November 2013

Reported by FDA

25 December 2013

Terminated

29 October 2015

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

0 11596 50301 2 11/1/2013 - 11/4/2013; 0 11596 50302 8 11/11/2013; 0 11596 50304 2 10/31/2013; 0 11596 50306 6 11/9/2013; 0 11596 50305 9 10/30/2013 - 11/6/2013; 0 11596 50329 5 10/30/2013 - 11/6/2013; 0 11596 50321 9 11/6/2013 - 11/11/2013; 0 11596 50340 0 10/29/2013 - 11/1/2013; 0 11596 50314 10/29/2013; 0 11596 50310 5 11/10/2013; 0 11596 50311 0 10/31/2013 - 11/1/2013; 0 11596 50315 8 10/30/2013 - 11/6/2013;

Reading this record

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

• Class 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 255 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 255 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 255. All 255 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 24 months, from 7 November 2013 to termination on 29 October 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 8 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks 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: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 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 255 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 254 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 Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 633 other records name this firm.

All 634 records for Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.

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