Trader Joe's Quinoa Cowboy Veggie Burger, 26 x 12 oz. (340g)/box, Best if used by…
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
- Trader Joe's Quinoa Cowboy Veggie Burger, 26 x 12 oz. (340g)/box, Best if used by: May-12-2018, UPC 0053 2761, Dist. & Sold Exclusively By: Trader Joe's, Monrovia CA 91016
- 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-1635-2016
- Quantity
- 13,156 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 #F16BC-01A TJQCB26 Case code: N16CI-02A Retail unit code: N16CI Best by: 1/28/2018 Case code: N16CI-02B Retail unit code: N16CI Best by: 1/28/2018 Case code: N16CI-02D Retail unit code: N16CI Best by: 1/28/2018 Case code: T16AE-01A Retail unit code: T16AE Best by: 2/04/2018 Case code: T16BB-01A Retail unit code: T16BB Best by: 2/11/2018 Case code: T16CF-01A Retail unit code: T16CF Best by: 2/25/2018 Case code: H16AE-01A Retail unit code: H16AE Best by: 3/04/2018 Case code: H16BA-02A Retail unit code: H16BA Best by: 3/10/2018 Case code: H16BH-01A Retail unit code: H16BH Best by: 3/17/2018 Case code: H16BA-02C Retail unit code: H16BA Best by: 3/10/2018 Case code: R16AG-01A Retail unit code: R16AG Best by: 4/06/2018 Case code: R16AG-01B Retail unit code: R16AG Best by: 4/06/2018 Case code: R16CA-06A Retail unit code: R16CA Best by: 4/20/2018
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- 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. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 23 of them.
- 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.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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 grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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 Dr. Praeger'S Sensible Foods
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 22 other records name this firm.
All 23 records for Dr. Praeger'S Sensible Foods
All 2016 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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