United Natural Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 August 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Two food trailers holding various types and brands of frozen foods were temperature abused during deliver to two retail stores.
The record
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Product
REFRIDGERATED VEGETABLE PRODUCTS 1. ISABELLE HOMESTYL COLE SLAW 5.00 LB UPC 71070842182 5LB SALAD BAR TENDERS 2. SAMS MILD FRESH SALSA UPC 60117210939 16 OZ F & S PRODUCE CO INC 3. SUPER VEGGIE DETOX SALAD UPC 74000474750 6.09 LB FRESHWAY FOODS 4. SUPER VEGGIE DETOX SALAD UPC 74000474750 6.09 LB FRESHWAY FOODS 5. LOVE BEETS WHITE WINE AND BALSAMIC BEETS UPC 85099600431 6.5OZ LOVE BEETS USA LLC 6. LOVE BEET ORGANIC MILD VINEGAR BEETS 6.5OZ UPC 85099600428 6.5OZ LOVE BEETS USA LLC 7. LOVE BEET ORGANIC MILD VINEGAR BEETS 6.5OZ UPC 85099600428 6 6.5OZ LOVE BEETS USA LLC 8. FRESHWAY CHOPPED ROMAINE UPC 74000474001 2 LB FRESHWAY FOODS 9. FRESHWAY CHOPPED ROMAINE UPC 74000474001 2 LB FRESHWAY FOODS 10. FRESHWAY GREEK FARRO AND CHICKPEA KIT UPC 74000474979 7.67 LB FRESHWAY FOODS 11. FRESHWAY GREEK FARRO AND CHICKPEA KIT UPC 74000474979 7.67 LB FRESHWAY FOODS 12. ASK FOODS COLLARD GREENS 4LBS UPC 4742620894 4 LB ASK FOODS INC
UPC
74000474750
Reason for recall
Two food trailers holding various types and brands of frozen foods were temperature abused during deliver to two retail stores.
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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. 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 15 of them.
The recall ran for 13 months, from 16 June 2022 to termination on 27 July 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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: Alabama, Mississippi. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
A process deviation recall means the process ran outside its validated limits: a thermal process that did not reach its time and temperature, a pH that drifted, or a seal that failed.
A preventive controls plan covers a process deviation 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 113
Thermally processed low-acid foods in hermetically sealed containers: the scheduled process, its establishment by a competent authority, and the records proving every container received it.
21 CFR 114
Acidified foods: the controls on equilibrium pH at or below 4.6, and the process that achieves it.
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.
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.
21 CFR 113 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.
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.
