Black Bean & roasted Chili Salsa sold under the following sizes and brands: 1.

Parkers Farm Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 23 April 2014 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Various Peanut butters, cheese spreads, cold pack cheese, salsa, cheese balls/logs have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Black Bean & roasted Chili Salsa sold under the following sizes and brands: 1. Parkers Farm or Parkers label in 32 ounce (80598) jug with screw on lid;

Reason for recall

Various Peanut butters, cheese spreads, cold pack cheese, salsa, cheese balls/logs have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Parkers Farm Inc

Firm location

Coon Rapids, Minnesota, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1865-2014

Quantity

369,840 total cases for all varieties

Distribution

Nationwide. No distribution outside the US.

Initiated

21 March 2014

Reported by FDA

23 April 2014

Terminated

21 October 2015

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

Sell by Date before 7/20/2014

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 40 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 40 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 40. 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 40 of them.
• The recall ran for 19 months, from 21 March 2014 to termination on 21 October 2015. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.

What this recall was for

Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 Parkers Farm Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 47 other records name this firm.

All 48 records for Parkers Farm Inc

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