The following items sold at Stop & Shop stores located in the New York Metro Region…
C & S Wholesale Grocers Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 September 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Perishable products were not held at an appropriate temperature.
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
Product
The following items sold at Stop & Shop stores located in the New York Metro Region: Tofurky Holiday Ham Roast Nasoya Tofu X-Firm Twin Pack Field Roast Apple Vegan Sausage Field Roast Veggie Burger Lightlife Jackfruit Nasoya Thai Basil Dumpling Field Roast Italian Sausage Field Roast Apple Sausage BBQ Jackfruit Tex Mex Jackfruit Lightlife Sausage Chorizo Nasoya Organic Tofu Firm Nasoya Zesty Mex Skillet Field Roast Chipotle Sausage Nasoya Super Firm Sprouted Tofu Lightlife Smart Sausage Italian Lightlife Smart Slice Turkey Nasoya Extra Firm Tofu Lightlife Smart Bacon Upton's Naturals Jackfruit Thai Curry Smart Dogs Plant Based Hot Dogs Nasoya Organic Super Firm Tofu Tofurky Italian Sausage Lightlife Smart Ground Crumbles Lightlife Smart Ground Mexican Crumbles Tofurky Oven Roasted Deli Slices
Reason for recall
Perishable products were not held at an appropriate temperature.
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 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
The recall ran for 2 months, from 19 July 2023 to termination on 27 September 2023. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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: New York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
