Diced Carrots, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 20100 Organic Diced…
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. Carrots are recalled because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Diced Carrots, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 20100 Organic Diced Carrots, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 4635800019 Shoestring Carrots, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 4635800027 Organic Diced Carrots, Brand Organic by Nature , Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 20191 Carrots, Brand Chef Maxwell, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 635302-5004 Diced Carrots, Brand Farmer's Bounty, Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 4635800029 Slice Carrots, Brand Farmer's Bounty, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 463580008 Diced Carrots, Brand The Inn, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 8628920742 Crinkle Cut Carrots, Brand Parade, Net Wt 16 oz, UP 5070030668 Crinkle Cut Carrots, Brand Safeway Kitchens, Net Wt 24 oz, UPC 2113009109 Crinkle Cut Carrots, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 2113009945 Crinkle Cut Carrots, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 24 oz, UPC 2113009945 *******BULK containers*************** Organic Carrots, Brand Hain, Net Wt 1250 lb Carrots, Brand MRB Foods Sources, Net Wt 50 lb Organic Carrots, Brand Pacific Foods, Net Wt 50 lb Organic Carrots, Brand Pacific Foods, Net Wt 1600 lb Organic Carrots, Brand Primal Pet Food Inc, Net Wt 50 lb Organic Carrots, Brand Primal Pet Food Inc, Net Wt 1500 lb
- UPC
- 4635800019
- Reason for recall
- 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-1806-2016
- Quantity
- 1,251,822 lbs
- Distribution
- US nationwide and in Canada & 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. Chef Maxwell Carrots have the code format Best By: 071616 254000009920 17:40 Farmer's Bounty Diced Carrots have the code format 255020004421 08:37 Farmer's Bounty Slice Carrots have the code format 4635800008 08:37 The Inn Diced Carrots have the code format 252020001115 08:32 Parade Crinkle Cut Carrots have the code format Best By: 122215 251235001108 15:23 Product of USA A Safeway Kitchens Crinkle Cut Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Crinkle Cut Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Crinkle Cut Carrots have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B 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 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 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 pet and animal food. 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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