WOODSTOCK ORGANIC GRILLED RED PEPPER, NET WT 10. OZ, packaged in a plastic packaged…
UNFI General Corporate recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 July 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- WOODSTOCK ORGANIC GRILLED RED PEPPER, NET WT 10. OZ, packaged in a plastic packaged marked with UPC Code: 4256301714. Frozen.
- Reason for recall
- Product tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- UNFI General Corporate
- Firm location
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1527-2019
- Quantity
- 1010 cases
- Distribution
- AK AL CA CO CT FL GA IA ID IL IN KS MA ME MI MO MT NC NE NH NJ NM NY OH PA RI SC SD TX UT VA WA WY
- Initiated
- 19 June 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 10 July 2019
- Terminated
- 26 March 2021
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot # 60B, Expires April 2020
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 21 months, from 19 June 2019 to termination on 26 March 2021. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a spice or seasoning run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Spices are a low-moisture, globally sourced, minimally processed ingredient that is added after any kill step, which is the combination that makes Salmonella in a spice lot capable of contaminating every product it was blended into.
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.
Filed under spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Other spices and seasonings 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 UNFI General Corporate
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 35 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-16 | 1. USA OG2 LEEKS | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. ORGANIC OG2 GREEN ONIONS | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. USA OG2 BNCH CILANTRO | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. USA/MEX OG2 SPINACH | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. USA OG2 SDLS MINI WTRM | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. CANADA ENGLISH CUCUMBER | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1.MEXICO OG2 FENNEL | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1.MIGHTIES OG2 KIWI | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. CA CURLY PARLSEY CTN 2. CA ITALIAN PARSLEY 3. USA OG2 ITALN PARSLEY | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
| 2025-07-16 | 1. FRESH OG2 BRUSL SPROUTS | UNFI General Corporate | May be contaminated with fluid from a reach truck | Class II |
All 36 records for UNFI General Corporate
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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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