Class ITerminated · reported 2023-08-30

Team Fresh & Go: Mixed Fruit Cup, packaged in 16oz plastic cup with lid.

Freshy Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 August 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes

The record

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Product: Team Fresh & Go: Mixed Fruit Cup, packaged in 16oz plastic cup with lid. Packaged and sold as single unit.
Reason for recall: potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes
Recalling firm: Freshy Foods, LLC
Firm location: New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-1451-2023
Quantity: 249 units
Distribution: Facilities located in FL, LA, and MS
Initiated: 29 June 2023
Reported by FDA: 30 August 2023
Terminated: 5 July 2024
Firm notified by: Telephone
Product codes: Best By 07/05/23

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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 12 months, from 29 June 2023 to termination on 5 July 2024. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Named in the distribution pattern: Louisiana, Mississippi. 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

Listeria monocytogenes

Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.

A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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 117.135(c)(3): Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
21 CFR 117.165(a)(3): Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
21 CFR 117.150: Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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.

The other 2 records of FDA event 92651
Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2023-08-30	Team Fresh & Go: Cantaloupe Cup, packaged in 12oz plastic cup with lid. Packaged and sold as single unit.	Freshy Foods, LLC	potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-08-30	Team Fresh & Go: Pineapple Cup, packaged in 12oz plastic cup with lid. Packaged and sold as single unit.	Freshy Foods, LLC	potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes	Class I

Other records from Freshy Foods, LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2023-08-30	Team Fresh & Go: Cantaloupe Cup, packaged in 12oz plastic cup with lid. Packaged and sold as single unit.	Freshy Foods, LLC	potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes	Class I
2023-08-30	Team Fresh & Go: Pineapple Cup, packaged in 12oz plastic cup with lid. Packaged and sold as single unit.	Freshy Foods, LLC	potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes	Class I

All 3 records for Freshy Foods, LLC

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21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.

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