Hy-Vee Shredded Lettuce 8 oz., UPC 075450120530, Iceberg lettuce
Fresh Express Incorporated recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 July 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora.
The record
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- Product
- Hy-Vee Shredded Lettuce 8 oz., UPC 075450120530, Iceberg lettuce
- UPC
- 075450120530
- Reason for recall
- Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora.
- Recalling firm
- Fresh Express Incorporated
- Firm location
- Windermere, Florida, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1109-2020
- Quantity
- unknown
- Distribution
- Domestic: Midwestern states of AR, CT, DC, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV Foreign: Canada
- Initiated
- 19 June 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 22 July 2020
- Terminated
- 16 December 2020
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Product Code Z160, Z161, Z162, Z163, Z164. USED BY or Before 7/06/2020
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 92 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 92 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 92. 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 92 of them.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 19 June 2020 to termination on 16 December 2020. 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 30 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, 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
Viral and parasitic contamination
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.10
- Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
- 21 CFR 112
- Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Fresh Express Incorporated
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 98 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Garden, 12 oz, UPC 4099100082975, Iceberg lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Fresh Express Chopped Kit Thai 'N' Cashews 11.7 oz, UPC 071279309248, (Canada UPC) 0 71279 30925 5, Green and red cabbage, green leaf lettuce, carrots & green onions | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Fresh Express Gourmet Cafe Creative Classics Turkey & Bacon Chef 5.75 oz.,UPC 071279407081, Iceberg & romaine lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Fresh Express Green & Crisp / Verde y Crujiente 11 oz., UPC 071279108049, (Canada UPC) 0 71279 10813 1, Iceberg & romaine lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Hy-Vee Chopped Kit Chipotle Cheddar Salad 11.4 oz., UPC 075450246728, Green & red cabbage & green onions | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Fresh Express Iceberg Garden / Lechuga Repollo 3 lbs., UPC 071279104119, Iceberg lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Marketside Chopped Salad Kit Southwest 13.4 oz., UPC 681131007061, Green & red cabbage, kale, romaine lettuce, kale, green onions & carrots | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Giant Eagle Life s Getting Fresher Fresh Romaine Garden Salad Blend 12 oz., UPC 030034923167,Romaine lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Fresh Express SHREDS 8 oz., UPC 071279151014, (Canada UPC) 0 71279 15101 4, Shredded iceberg lettuce | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Marketside Baby Greens Salad 6 oz., UPC 681131027922, Baby spinach, carrots, baby lettuce blend & baby greens blend | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
All 99 records for Fresh Express Incorporated
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