Midwest Northern Nut Pumpkin Seeds, Roasted NO Salt. Net Wt. 5 lbs. Midwest Northern…

Midwest Northern Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 April 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. potential Allergen cross contact in oil used to roast various nuts and seeds products.

The record

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Product

Midwest Northern Nut Pumpkin Seeds, Roasted NO Salt. Net Wt. 5 lbs. Midwest Northern Inc., Minneapolis, MN 55118

Reason for recall

potential Allergen cross contact in oil used to roast various nuts and seeds products.

Recalling firm

Midwest Northern Inc

Firm location

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1087-2018

Quantity

35,056 lbs.

Distribution

AK, GA, IA, IN, KY, MN, MO, ND, NH, NY, OH, TX, WI

Initiated

7 March 2017

Reported by FDA

25 April 2018

Terminated

25 April 2018

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Lot Numbers: 002180 - 061180

Reading this record

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

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 66 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 66 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 66. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 66 of them.
• The recall ran for 14 months, from 7 March 2017 to termination on 25 April 2018. 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 13 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 14 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alaska, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Texas, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under nuts and seeds and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Other nuts and seeds 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 Midwest Northern Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 65 other records name this firm.

All 66 records for Midwest Northern Inc

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