Whole Foods Mesclun Goat Cheese Salad Mini Net Wt 4 0z plastic shell
Whole Foods Market Group Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 6 August 2014 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product labels switched and undeclared allergens not declared in ingredient statement. Caesar salad contains undeclared tree nuts and Goat Cheese salad undeclared fish
The record
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- Product
- Whole Foods Mesclun Goat Cheese Salad Mini Net Wt 4 0z plastic shell
- Reason for recall
- Product labels switched and undeclared allergens not declared in ingredient statement. Caesar salad contains undeclared tree nuts and Goat Cheese salad undeclared fish
- Recalling firm
- Whole Foods Market Group Inc.
- Firm location
- Everett, Massachusetts, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2239-2014
- Quantity
- 592 units
- Distribution
- CT, NY, NJ
- Initiated
- 8 July 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 6 August 2014
- Terminated
- 30 July 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Sell By 7/11/14
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3 weeks, from 8 July 2014 to termination on 30 July 2014. 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 distribution pattern names 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of cheese run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Cheese dominates Listeria recalls among dairy products because soft and semi-soft varieties hold enough moisture for the organism to grow at refrigeration temperature, and because most are eaten without any further cooking step.
Named in the distribution pattern: Connecticut, New York, New Jersey. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
The allergens named in this record: tree nuts, fish.
Filed under cheese and fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-08-06 | Whole Foods Caesar Salad Mini Net Wt 4 0z plastic shell | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Product labels switched and undeclared allergens not declared in ingredient statement. Caesar salad contains undeclared tree nuts and Goat Cheese salad undeclared fish | Class II |
Other cheese 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 Whole Foods Market Group Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 36 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-15 | CANDY DESSERT SHELL VANILLA PANIBOIS, 17 Ounce | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CUPCAKE BERRY CHANTILLY MEDIUM, 4.5 Ounce | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CAKE FRUIT 6IN, 28.0 Ounce CAKE FRUIT 9IN, 64.0 Ounce | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CAKE BLUEBERRY LEMON 6 IN | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CAKE MANGO MOUSSE 9IN | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | PARFAIT FRESH FRUIT , 1.0 Pound | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CAKE BERRY CHANTILLY 9IN | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | PARFAIT BANANA, 1.0 Pound | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CAKE TOASTED ALMOND 6 IN, 29.6 Ounce CAKE TOASTED ALMOND 9IN, 64.0 Ounce | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
| 2018-08-15 | CAKE LEMON RASPBERRY | Whole Foods Market Group Inc. | Whole Foods Market, Inc. has initiated a recall of various bakery products that was made in there Mid-Atlantic stores and sold between May 25th and July 13th which failed to declare soy flour (soy) as an ingredient. | Class I |
All 37 records for Whole Foods Market Group Inc.
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