Eillien's Salted Sunflower Kernels Net WT 4 oz (113G) sealed in original plastic…

Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 July 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Garden Fresh Foods Inc. is recalling 4oz individual packages of sunflower kernels that were included in three of their salad kits. The kernels were distributed by Eillien's Candies whose ingredient supplier, SunOpta, has stated may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. There have been no reported illnesses to date.

The record

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Product

Eillien's Salted Sunflower Kernels Net WT 4 oz (113G) sealed in original plastic packaging and contained in Garden Fresh Foods Cool Breeze Health SALD Kit #2052, Net WT 7.06 lbs, 3.20 kg. 0 01 11596 72052 1.

Reason for recall

Garden Fresh Foods Inc. is recalling 4oz individual packages of sunflower kernels that were included in three of their salad kits. The kernels were distributed by Eillien's Candies whose ingredient supplier, SunOpta, has stated may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. There have been no reported illnesses to date.

Recalling firm

Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.

Firm location

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1765-2016

Quantity

126 kits & 126 sunflower kernel packages.

Distribution

US: MI, WI, IL

Initiated

24 May 2016

Reported by FDA

27 July 2016

Terminated

5 October 2016

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

Use-By-Dates, which were 5/28, 5/30, 5/31 and 6/4.

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 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 4 months, from 24 May 2016 to termination on 5 October 2016. 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 distribution pattern names 2 states, and 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Wisconsin, Illinois. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

What this recall was for

Every product in this recall

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Other records from Garden-Fresh Foods, Inc.

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