Great Value All Natural Hot Chunky Salsa, 24 oz (1lb 8oz) 680 g.; UPC 0078745208641…

Conagra Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 March 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The products may contain plastic pieces.

The record

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Product

Great Value All Natural Hot Chunky Salsa, 24 oz (1lb 8oz) 680 g.; UPC 0078745208641; Distributed by: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc, Bentonville, AR

UPC

0078745208641

Reason for recall

The products may contain plastic pieces.

Recalling firm

Conagra Inc

Firm location

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1248-2013

Quantity

12,317/12/24-oz/jar/cases

Distribution

Distribution was made to AR, AL, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MS, ME, NV, NY, MO, OH, OK, PA, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, WY and Canada.

Initiated

17 February 2013

Reported by FDA

27 March 2013

Terminated

21 May 2014

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Code Date: 020514 and 020614

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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. 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 4 of them.
• The recall ran for 15 months, from 17 February 2013 to termination on 21 May 2014. 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 23 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Maine, Nevada, New York, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming. 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 sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 Conagra Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.

All 9 records for Conagra Inc

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