PitaPal Original Hummus 5 lbs. UPC 85015700025 1 packaged in White plastic tub with…

Pita Pal Foods LP recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 September 2019 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product has potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes

The record

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Product

PitaPal Original Hummus 5 lbs. UPC 85015700025 1 packaged in White plastic tub with white lid; Original Hummus 10 oz. UPC 850157000688 packaged in Plastic tub with clear lid with green rim; Original Hummus Singles 2 oz. UPC 851570003935 packaged in Plastic tub with clear film covering; Original Hummus 32 oz. UPC 851570003430 packaged in Plastic tub with clear lid with green rim; Original Hummus To Go Pack 4 pack of 2 oz. UPC 851570003744 packaged Folding carton with plastic cups with clear film.

UPC

850157000251

Reason for recall

Product has potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes

Recalling firm

Pita Pal Foods LP

Firm location

Houston, Texas, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2195-2019

Quantity

3756 cases

Distribution

Nationwide throughout the US

Initiated

15 July 2019

Reported by FDA

25 September 2019

Terminated

13 April 2020

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Use By: 07/25/19 thru 9/18/19

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 71 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 71 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 71. All 71 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 15 July 2019 to termination on 13 April 2020. 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 2 months 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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 71 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 70 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

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 Pita Pal Foods LP

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 74 other records name this firm.

All 75 records for Pita Pal Foods LP

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