Organic Gardener's Blend, brand Columbia River Organics, frozen, net wt. 10oz.
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. Beans, Carrots, Corn, and Peas mixes are recalled because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Organic Gardener's Blend, brand Columbia River Organics, frozen, net wt. 10oz. UPC 5711000114 Mixed Vegetable Blend, brand O Organic, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 7989340182 Vegetable Blend, brand Pantry Essentials, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 2113015151 Vegetable Blend, brand Pantry Essentials, frozen, net wt. 64oz. UPC 2113015227 Organic Vegetable Medley, brand Organic by Nature, frozen, net wt. 5lb. UPC 4635800066 Organic Vegetable Medley, brand Organic by Nature, frozen, net wt. 2.5kg. UPC 4635800062 Organic Mixed Vegetables, brand Bybee Foods, frozen, net wt. 5lb. UPC 4635800051 Organic Mixed Vegetables, brand Bybee Foods, frozen, net wt. 4lb. UPC 4635800053 Mixed Vegetables, brand Endico, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 0145916610 Mixed Vegetables, brand Great Value, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 7874205334 Mixed Vegetables, brand Great Value, frozen, net wt. 26oz. UPC 7874210907 Steamable Mixed Vegetables, brand Great Value, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 7874208026 Mixed Vegetables, brand James Farm, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 6069501542 Mixed Vegetables, brand Safeway Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 2113009153 Seamed Mixed Vegetables, brand Season's Choice, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 4149820284 Mixed Vegetables (4-way), brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 2113009153 Organic Mixed Vegetables, brand Simply Nature, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 4149829655 Organic Mixed Vegetables, brand True Goodness, frozen, net wt. 10oz. UPC 1373343096 Organic Mixed Vegetables, brand Wellsley Farms, frozen, net wt. 4lb. UPC 8867000997 Organic Mixed Vegetables, brand Wild Oats, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 4873700715 Org 4way, brand O Organics, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 7989340182 Organic Foursome, brand Trader Joe's, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 00959902 The ingredients statement declares: Beans, Carrots, Corn, and Peas.
- UPC
- 5711000114
- Reason for recall
- Beans, Carrots, Corn, and Peas mixes 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-1781-2016
- Quantity
- 1639160 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 the code formats: O Organic Mixed Vegetable Blend has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Pantry Essentials Vegetable Blend has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Pantry Essentials Vegetable Blend has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Endico Mixed Vegetables has the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA C Great Value Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best If Used By: 042318 B 23:02 Product of USA Great Value MIxed Vegetables has the code format Best If Used By: 042318 C 23:02 Product of USA Great Value Steamable Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best If Used By: 042318 A 23:02 Product of USA James Farm Mixed Vegetables has the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA D Safeway Kitchens Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Season's Choice Steamed Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best Before: 032518 B 15:15 Product of USA Signature Kitchens Mixed Vegetables (4-way) has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Simpy Nature Organic Mixed Vegetables has the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA D True Goodness Organic Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best By: 042318 16:30 D Product of USA Wellsley Farms Organic Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best By: 041218 103 16 23:01 B Product of USA 556700001137 Wild Oats Organic Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best By: 040918 15:15 D Product of USA O Organics Org 4way has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Trader Joe's Organic Foursome has the code format Lot 115 16 BF 22:58 C Product of USA
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. 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 27 of them.
- 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 and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
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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