The Farmers Market brand Garden Salad, 6 oz, 12 oz, 24 oz bags, UPCs: 30034-30012…

River Ranch Fresh Foods LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 August 2012 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. River Ranch was notified that two separate samples of products pulled by the FDA which were produced by River Ranch, tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

The Farmers Market brand Garden Salad, 6 oz, 12 oz, 24 oz bags, UPCs: 30034-30012, 30034-30400, 30034-30363; Product is a salad item; bagged in clear polyethylene film (foodservice) and polypropylene/polyethylene (retail). Refrigerate and consume within Best By date. Product is processed and packaged by River Ranch Fresh Foods, LLC, Salinas, CA

Reason for recall

River Ranch was notified that two separate samples of products pulled by the FDA which were produced by River Ranch, tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

River Ranch Fresh Foods LLC

Firm location

Salinas, California, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1585-2012

Quantity

Not stated

Distribution

Products were released for distribution in US and Canada.

Initiated

18 May 2012

Reported by FDA

15 August 2012

Terminated

19 September 2012

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Best By code dates between 12MAY2012 - 29MAY2012; 12MAY2012 - 22MAY2012. The code date is located in the upper right hand corner of the bags.

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 is one of 87 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 87 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 87. All 87 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 18 May 2012 to termination on 19 September 2012. 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 months 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 87 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 86 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.

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.

Other records from River Ranch Fresh Foods LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 86 other records name this firm.

All 87 records for River Ranch Fresh Foods LLC

All 2012 recalls · All FDA food recall data