Frozen vegetable-based burgers RETAIL - DOMESTIC: Organic Sunshine Burgers Gluten Free…

Sunshine Burger & Specialty Food Company, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 April 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Gluten testing was performed on products labeled gluten free. The results received back were >20ppm.

The record

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Product

Frozen vegetable-based burgers RETAIL - DOMESTIC: Organic Sunshine Burgers Gluten Free Soy Free Vegan Barbecue 3 Organic Veggie Burgers Keep Frozen Net WT: 8 OZ. Best Before: 5/4/16; 6/11/2016; 8/13/16; CANADIAN: Organic Sunshine Burgers Barbecue 3 Organic Veggie Burgers Galettes Veggie biologiques Keep Frozen/Garder Congale 3-75 g Burgers/galettes 227 g Best Before/meilleur avant: 16/05/2016

Reason for recall

Gluten testing was performed on products labeled gluten free. The results received back were >20ppm.

Recalling firm

Sunshine Burger & Specialty Food Company, LLC

Firm location

Bridgeville, Delaware, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1614-2015

Quantity

4113 - 8 oz. packages

Distribution

CA CO IL MA NH NJ PA WA WI Canada

Initiated

27 February 2015

Reported by FDA

1 April 2015

Terminated

14 August 2015

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Retail: Item #000023 BBQ Flavor Best Before: 5/4/16, 6/11/2016, 8/13/16 Canadian: Item #010023 BBQ Flavor Best Before: 5/4/16

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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 27 February 2015 to termination on 14 August 2015. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.

Every product in this recall

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Other records from Sunshine Burger & Specialty Food Company, LLC

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All 3 records for Sunshine Burger & Specialty Food Company, LLC

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