Peas & Carrots, brand Bybee's Best, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC 4635800013 Peas & Carrots…
CRF Frozen Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 August 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Peas & Carrots are recalled because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Peas & Carrots, brand Bybee's Best, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC 4635800013 Peas & Carrots, brand Chef Maxwell, frozen, net wt. 30lb. UPC 98020 Carrots and Peas, brand CH Belt, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC -- Organic Peas & Carrots, brand Columbia River Organics, frozen, net wt.10oz. UPC 5711000112 Peas and Carrots, brand Emerald Farms, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 3765403673 Peas and Carrots, brand Endico, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC 7730 Peas and Carrots, brand Endico, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 0145916730 Peas & Carrots, brand Farmer's Bounty, frozen, net wt. 30lb. UPC 4635800002 Peas & Carrots, brand Fiesta Mart, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 5102280007 Peas & Carrots, brand Great Value, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 7874205335 Peas & Carrots, brand James Farm, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 6069501001 Peas and Carrots, brand JAG Foods/LA Foods, frozen, net wt. 30lb. UPC -- Peas & Carrots, brand Northwest Growers Select, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC 14100 Carrots & Peas, brand Panda Express, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC 10882210001309 Peas and Dice Carrots, brand Parade, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 5070031831 Peas & Carrots, brand Quirch, frozen, net wt. 14oz. UPC 6507260152 Peas & Carrots, brand Quirch, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 6507260151 Green Peas & Diced Carrots, brand Safeway Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 2113009182 Peas & Carrots, brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 2113009182 Peas & Carrots, brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 2113009154 Peas & Carrots, brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 2113009033 Peas & Carrots, brand The Inn, frozen, net wt. 20lb. UPC 8628920749 Organic Peas & Shoestring Carrots, brand True Goodness, frozen, net wt.10oz. UPC 0882077972 Peas & Carrots, brand VIP, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 7007701068 The ingredients statement declares: Peas and Carrots.
- UPC
- 4635800013
- Reason for recall
- Peas & Carrots are recalled because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- CRF Frozen Foods, LLC
- Firm location
- Pasco, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1773-2016
- Quantity
- 4015345 lbs.
- Distribution
- US nationwide and in Canada and Japan
- Initiated
- 2 May 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 3 August 2016
- Terminated
- 11 September 2017
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- All affected products have the best by dates or sell by dates between April 26, 2016 and April 26, 2018. These products have code formats: Chef Maxwell Peas & Carrots have the code format Best By: 071616 303000009920 17:38 Emerald Farms Peas and Carrots have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA C Endico Peas and Carrots have the code format 302000007709 08:32 Endico Peas and Carrots have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA D Farmer's Bounty Peas & Carrots have the code format 303000007721 08:34 Fiesta Mart Peas & Carrots have the code format Best By: 122215 301200001178 15:23 Product of USA A Great Value Peas & Carrots have the code format Best If Used By: 042318 C 23:02 Product of USA James Farm Peas & Carrots have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA E Panda Express Carrots & Peas have the code format Use By: 021415 BF 16:20 Parade Peas and Dice Carrots have the code format Best By: 122215 3011200001108 15:23 Product of USA A Quirch Peas & Carrots have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA A Quirch Peas & Carrots have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA B Safeway Kitchens Green Peas & Diced Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Peas & Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Peas & Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Peas & Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA The Inn Peas & Carrots have the code format 302000001115 08:35 True Goodness Organic Peas & Shoestring Carrots have the code format Best By: 042318 16:30 D Product of USA VIP Peas & Carrots have the code format 3756 107 16 08:27 A USA/CANADA
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 27 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 27 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 27. All 27 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 16 months, from 2 May 2016 to termination on 11 September 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 3 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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
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 fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 27 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 26 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 CRF Frozen Foods, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 53 other records name this firm.
All 54 records for CRF Frozen Foods, LLC
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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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