Frozen whole Red Raspberries; packed in a 12 oz. polyethylene bag; UPC: 0 70552 30501 4.
Oregon Potato Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 July 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Whole Red Raspberries are recalled due to potential contamination with Norovirus.
The record
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Product
Frozen whole Red Raspberries; packed in a 12 oz. polyethylene bag; UPC: 0 70552 30501 4. The label is read in parts: "***WinCo Foods Red Raspberries *** KEEP FROZEN***PRODUCT OF USA***DISTRIBUTED BY: WINCO FOODS LLC, BOISE, ID***".
UPC
070552305014
Reason for recall
Whole Red Raspberries are recalled due to potential contamination with Norovirus.
distributed in Arizona, California, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Washington, Texas, and Utah.
Initiated
13 June 2019
Reported by FDA
24 July 2019
Terminated
25 October 2019
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
Bag: PRODUCT OF USA, BEST BY FEB/13/21, 4045902. Case: 4045902, Pack Date: FEB/14/19, Product of USA, Best by FEB/13/21, 4045902, 107422. Code 4045902 broke down as: 4 = IQF FACILITY 045 = JULIAN DATE (FEBRUARY 14) 9 = YEAR (2019) 02 = LINE #
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 4 months, from 13 June 2019 to termination on 25 October 2019. 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 6 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.
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic 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 117.10
Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
21 CFR 112
Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
21 CFR 117 subpart G
Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce 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.
21 CFR 117.10 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.
