Mixed Vegetable, brand Emerald Farms, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 3765403670 Mixed…
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. Mixed Vegetables are recalled because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Mixed Vegetable, brand Emerald Farms, frozen, net wt. 40oz. UPC 3765403670 Mixed Vegetables, brand Fiesta Mart, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 5102280006 Mixed Vegetables, brand Parade, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 5070030675 Mixed Vegetables, brand Parade, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 5070055832 Mixed Vegetables, brand Quirch, frozen, net wt. 14oz. UPC 6507260130 Mixed Vegetables, brand Quirch, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 6507260129 Mixed Vegetables,brand Safeway Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 2113009042 Mixed Vegetables (4-way), brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 2113009042 Mixed Vegetables (5-way), brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 2113009042 Mixed Vegetables (5-way), brand Signature Kitchens, frozen, net wt. 12oz. UPC 2113024258 Mixed Vegetables, brand VIP, frozen, net wt. 16oz. UPC 7007701076 Mixed Vegetables, brand VIP, frozen, net wt. 32oz. UPC 7007701276 The ingredients statement declares: Beans, Carrots, Corn, and Lima Beans.
- UPC
- 3765403670
- Reason for recall
- Mixed Vegetables 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-1784-2016
- Quantity
- 4250756 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: Emerald Farms Mixed Vegetables has the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA E Fiesta Mart Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best By: 122215 451200001178 15:23) Product of USA A Parade Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best By: 122215 45150000110815:23) Product of USA A Parade Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best By: 122215 451200001108 15:23) Product of USA A Quirch Mixed Vegetables has the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA E Quirch Mixed Vegetables has the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA A Safeway Kitchens Mixed Vegetables has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B 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 Signature Kitchens Mixed Vegetables (5-way) has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Mixed Vegetables (5-way) has the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA VIP Mixed Vegetables has the code format 3756 107 16 08:27 A USA/CANADA VIP Mixed Vegetables has 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. 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. 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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