Happy Harvest Leaf Spinach; Net Wt. 13.5 oz (383g); Ingredients: Spinach, Water, Salt.
Mccall Farms Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 May 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Canned spinach is being recalled due to the potential to contain boiled peanuts instead of spinach.
The record
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- Product
- Happy Harvest Leaf Spinach; Net Wt. 13.5 oz (383g); Ingredients: Spinach, Water, Salt. Distributed by Aldi Inc. Batavia, IL 60510; Product of USA; Manufactured In A Facility That Processes Peanuts and Soy. May Contain Peanuts and Soy. Packaged in a steel 2-piece can.
- Reason for recall
- Canned spinach is being recalled due to the potential to contain boiled peanuts instead of spinach.
- Recalling firm
- Mccall Farms Inc
- Firm location
- Effingham, South Carolina, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Ongoing
- Recall number
- F-1412-2018
- Quantity
- 739 cases (12 - 13.5 oz cans/case)
- Distribution
- Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, and West Virginia.
- Initiated
- 19 April 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 9 May 2018
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Lot Code: SPIN71A23IX Use by January 2021; UPC: 041498131289
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.
- This recall has no termination date on the record, so as published it had not been terminated under 21 CFR 7.55.
- The FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- 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, nuts and seeds and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce recalls
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Other records from Mccall Farms Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-07-06 | Piggly Wiggly, Yellow Cut Corn, Net Wt 32oz (2 lbs), 907g bags, Distributed by Piggly Wiggly LLC, Keene, NH 03431. | Mccall Farms Inc | Possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. | Class I |
| 2014-12-17 | Margaret Holmes, Turnip Greens, 14.5 oz, Distributed by McCall Farms, Effingham, SC | Mccall Farms Inc | Swollen Cans; Firm received complaints of illnesses due to consumption of recalled products. | Class III |
| 2014-12-17 | Margaret Holmes Mixed Greens 14.5 oz, Distributed by McCall Farms, Effingham, SC | Mccall Farms Inc | Swollen Cans; Firm received complaints of illnesses due to consumption of recalled products. | Class III |
All 4 records for Mccall Farms Inc
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