VA Kit Roasting Brussel Sprouts, Item #72893. Each case contains 2/6.15 lb. bags.
Pacific Coast Fruit Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 April 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. VA Kit Roasting Brussel Sprouts, Item #72893, is recalled due to a possible exposure to walnut.
The record
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- Product
- VA Kit Roasting Brussel Sprouts, Item #72893. Each case contains 2/6.15 lb. bags. The UPC is 0 20728 72893 2
- Reason for recall
- VA Kit Roasting Brussel Sprouts, Item #72893, is recalled due to a possible exposure to walnut.
- Recalling firm
- Pacific Coast Fruit Company
- Firm location
- Portland, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1025-2016
- Quantity
- 25 cases
- Distribution
- distributed in Canada
- Initiated
- 4 March 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 13 April 2016
- Terminated
- 25 May 2016
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best Used by March 07
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 3 months, from 4 March 2016 to termination on 25 May 2016. 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 6 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.
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 Pacific Coast Fruit Company
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 Pacific Coast Fruit Company
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