Produce Packaging, Inc. Cauliflower 8/10 OZ Rice Trays 5 lbs

Produce Packaging Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 March 2019 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli.

The record

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Product

Produce Packaging, Inc. Cauliflower 8/10 OZ Rice Trays 5 lbs

Reason for recall

Firm received notification from supplier of potential for contamination with E.coli.

Recalling firm

Produce Packaging Inc

Firm location

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1080-2019

Quantity

258

Distribution

OH, MI, NY, TX

Initiated

18 December 2018

Reported by FDA

6 March 2019

Terminated

17 September 2019

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

X0287706 21DEC18, X0288139 22DEC18, X0286810 19DEC18, X0286466 17DEC18, X0285969 15DEC18, X0285524 14DEC18, X0288129 21DEC18, X0287741 21DEC18, X0286810 19DEC18, X0287066 19DEC18, X0286487 17DEC18, X0285549 14DEC18

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 22 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 22 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 22. All 22 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 18 December 2018 to termination on 17 September 2019. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.

Named in the distribution pattern: Ohio, Michigan, New York, Texas. 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 grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 22 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 21 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 grains, flour and pasta 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 Produce Packaging Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 24 other records name this firm.

All 25 records for Produce Packaging Inc

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