Dr. Praeger's Purely Sensible Foods Jumbo California Veggie Burger (Vegan), 5.5 oz., 10…

Dr. Praeger'S Sensible Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 July 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Dr. Praeger's Sensible Food/Ungar's Food Products is voluntarily recalling various not-ready-to eat frozen products because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Dr. Praeger's Purely Sensible Foods Jumbo California Veggie Burger (Vegan), 5.5 oz., 10 lbs (4.54.kg), Best if used by: May 17, 2018, UPC (01) 00080868 01011, Dr. Praegers Sensible Foods, Elmwood Park, NJ 07407

Reason for recall

Dr. Praeger's Sensible Food/Ungar's Food Products is voluntarily recalling various not-ready-to eat frozen products because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Dr. Praeger'S Sensible Foods

Firm location

Elmwood Park, New Jersey, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1630-2016

Quantity

6,501 cases

Distribution

US Nationwide and Foreign

Initiated

13 May 2016

Reported by FDA

20 July 2016

Terminated

4 October 2017

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Lot #F16BH-02B JVBIN Case code: T16CE-03E Retail unit code: T16CE Best by: 2/24/2018 Case code: H16BF-03A Retail unit code: H16BF Best by: 3/15/2018 Case code: R16AF-03D Retail unit code: R16AF Best by: 4/05/2018 Case code: R16AG-02A Retail unit code: R16AG Best by: 4/06/2018 Case code: R16AG-02B Retail unit code: R16AG Best by: 4/06/2018

Reading this record

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• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 23 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 23 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 23. All 23 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 17 months, from 13 May 2016 to termination on 4 October 2017. 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 2 months 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.

What this recall was for

Every product in this recall

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Other records from Dr. Praeger'S Sensible Foods

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All 23 records for Dr. Praeger'S Sensible Foods

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