Class ITerminated · reported 2016-08-03
Cut Green Beans, Brand Bybee Foods, Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 205050004485CR Organic Petite…
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. Green Beans are recalled because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Cut Green Beans, Brand Bybee Foods, Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 205050004485CR Organic Petite Whole Green Beans, Brand Bybee Foods, Net Wt 5 lb, UPC 5711000146 1" Cut Green Beans, Brand Bybee's Best, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 4635800012 Whole Green Beans, Brand Bybee's Best, Net Wt 15 lb, UPC 4635800018 Green Beans, Brand Chef Maxwell, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 051849 Green Beans, Brand Chef Maxwell, Net Wt 25 lb, UPC 1-bean-grf Green Beans, Brand Chef Maxwell, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 3530295001 Green Beans, Brand Chef Maxwell, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 63530295001 Organic Cut Green Beans, Brand Columbia River Organics, Net Wt 10 oz, UPC 5711000103 Organic French Cut Green Beans, Brand Columbia River Organics, Net Wt 10 oz, UPC 5711000105 Organic Petite Whole Green Beans, Brand Columbia River Organics, Net Wt 10 oz, UPC 5711000102 Green Beans, Brand Correct Choice, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 30GBBE Green Beans, Brand Correct Choice, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 30GBCMI Cut Green Beans, Brand Endico, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 712 Cut Green Beans, Brand Farmers Bounty, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 4635800007 Cut Green Beans, Brand Farmer's Bounty, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 07300 Whole Green Beans, Brand Farmer's Bounty, Net Wt 15 lb, UPC 4635800021 Cut Green Beans, Brand Great Value, Net Wt 12 oz, UPC 7874205333 Steamable Cut Green Beans, Brand Great Value, Net Wt 12 oz, UPC 7874208363 Worlds Finest Cut Beans, Brand C.H. Belt's, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 00882240000695 Cut Green Beans, Brand James Farm, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 6069501004 Whole Green Beans, Brand James Farm, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 6069501003 1/2" Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 08110 Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 57110000184 Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 5711000186 Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 4635800020 Fine Whole Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 4 lb, UPC 10150 French Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 25100 Organic Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 5711000187 Organic Cut Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 50 lb, UPC 4635800042 Petite Whole Green Beans, Brand Northwest Growers Select, Net Wt 15 lb, UPC 5711000194 Whole Green Beans, Brand O Organic, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 7989340180 Organic Petite Whole Green Beans, Brand Organic by Nature, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 4635800071 Organic Petite Whole Green Beans, Brand Organic by Nature, Net Wt 5 lb, UPC 4635800059 1-1/2" Cut Green Beans, Brand Overhill Farms, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 0931140 Cut Green Beans, Brand Pantry Essentials, Net Wt 12 oz, UPC 2113015221 Cut Green Beans, Brand Pantry Essentials, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 2113015155 Cut Green Beans, Brand Parade, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 5070028672 Cut Green Beans, Brand Parade, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 5070055810 Cut Green Beans, Brand Safeway Kitchens, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 2113009151 Cut Green Beans, Brand Safeway Kitchens, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 2113009083 Whole Petite Green Beans, Brand Safeway Kitchens, Net Wt 12 oz, UPC 2113009005 Cut Green Beans, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 2113009151 Cut Green Beans, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 2113009083 French Cut Green Beans, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 2113009082 Whole Green Beans, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 2113024256 Whole Green Beans, Brand Signature Kitchens, Net Wt 12 oz, UPC 2113009005 Cut Green Beans, Brand The Inn, Net Wt 20 lb, UPC 8628920109 Whole Green Beans, Brand The Inn, Net Wt 2 lb, UPC 8628920112 Organic Whole Green Beans, Brand Trader Joe's, Net Wt 16 oz, UPC 00169219 Organic Cut Green Beans, Brand True Goodness, Net Wt 10 oz, UPC 1373343095 Cut Green Beans, Brand USDA, Net Wt 30 lb, UPC 203050004407 Cut Green Beans, Brand VIP, Net Wt 32 oz, UPC 7007701208 Organic Cut Green Beans, Brand Wild Oats, Net Wt 12 oz, UPC 4873700713 ***********BULK
- UPC
- 205050004485
- Reason for recall
- Green Beans 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-1810-2016
- Quantity
- Retails = 33,759,454 lbs and BULK = 15,498,593 lbs.; BULK 1/2 inch green beans = 67,200 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 Green Beans have the code format Best By: 071616 203050009920 17:30 Chef Maxwell Green Beans have the codeo format Best By: 071616 202530009920 17:32 Chef Maxwell Green Beans have the code format Best By: 071616 203050009920 17:34 Chef Maxwell Green Beans have the code format Best By: 071616 203050009920 17:35 Correct Choice Green Beans have the code format 203050007766 08:27 Correct Choice Green Beans have the code format 203050007766 08:28 Endico Cut Green Beans have the code format 202050007709 08:30 Farmers Bounty Cut Green Beans have the code format 203050007721 08:31 Farmer's Bounty Cut Green Beans have the code format 202050007721 08:27 Farmer's Bounty Whole Green Beans have the code format 4635800021 08:38 Great Value Cut Green Beans have the code format Best If Used By: 042318 A 23:02 Product of USA C.H. Belt's Worlds Finest Cut Beans have the code format 202050001168 08:29 Great Value Steamable Cut Green Beans have the code format Best If Used By: 042318 C 23:02 Product of USA James Farm Cut Green Beans have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA B James Farm Whole Green Beans have the code format Sell By: 012515 15:15 Product of USA A O Organic Whole Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Overhill Farms 1-1/2" Cut Green Beans have the code format 203017001168 08:29 Pantry Essentials Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Pantry Essentials Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Parade Cut Green Beans have the code format Best By: 122215 201250001108 15:23) Product of USA A Parade Cut Green Beans have the code format Best By: 122215 20155000110815:23) Product of USA A Safeway Kitchens Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Safeway Kitchens Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Safeway Kitchens Whole Petite Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens French Cut Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Whole Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA Signature Kitchens Whole Green Beans have the code format Best Before: Oct 23 17 S3904 15:08 B Product of USA The Inn Cut Green Beans have the code format 202050001115 08:30 Trader Joe's Organic Whole Green Beans have the code format Lot 115 16 BF 22:58 C Product of USA True Goodness Organic Cut Green Beans have the code format Best By: 042318 16:30 D Product of USA USDA Cut Green Beans have the code format 203050004407 08:27 VIP Cut Green Beans have the code format 3756 107 16 08:27 A USA/CANADA Wild Oats Organic Cut Green Beans have the code format Best By: 040918 15:15 A 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 a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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 grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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.
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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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