ARTISAN-STYLE PIZZA DOUGH BALL distributed under the following sizes and Product Codes…

Rich Products Corp recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 May 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The product was made with flour supplied by Ardent Mills who issued a recall on flour products due to possible E. coli 0121 contamination.

The record

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Product

ARTISAN-STYLE PIZZA DOUGH BALL distributed under the following sizes and Product Codes: (a) 12 OZ ARTISAN-STYLE PIZZA DOUGH BALL, RICH'S label, Product Code 11268, UPC 0 00 49800 11268 1, NET CASE WT: 12.2 KG (27 LB), UNIT NET WT: 340 G (12G), COUNT: 36; (b) 18 OZ ARTISAN-STYLE PIZZA DOUGH BALL, Product Code 11269, UPC 0 00 49800 11269 8, NET CASE WT: 12.2 KG (27 LB), UNIT NET WT: 510 (G) (1 LB 2 OZ), COUNT: 24; and (c) 22 OZ ARTISAN-STYLE PIZZA DOUGH BALL, Product Code 11270, UPC 0 00 49800 11270 4 , NET CASE WT: 13 KG (28 LB 14 OZ), UNIT NET WT: 623 G (22 OZ) (1 LB 6 OZ), COUNT: 21 --- PROCESSED IN CANADA, DIST. BY RICH PRODUCTS CORPORATION, BUFFALO, N.Y. 14213 U.S.A.

UPC

00049800112681

Reason for recall

The product was made with flour supplied by Ardent Mills who issued a recall on flour products due to possible E. coli 0121 contamination.

Recalling firm

Rich Products Corp

Firm location

Buffalo, New York, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2242-2017

Quantity

13,043 cases US (total for all products)

Distribution

AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI

Initiated

26 April 2017

Reported by FDA

31 May 2017

Terminated

14 January 2021

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

(a) Product Code 11268: Lot 77006354, Use By 18/Apr/17; Lot 77007003, Use by 03/May/17; Lot 77007004, Use by 04/May/17; Lot 77007009, Use by 09/May/17; Lot 77007016, Use by 16/May/17; Lot 77007023, Use by 23/May/17; Lot 77007030, Use by 30/May/17; Lot 77007031, Use by 30/May/17; Lot 77007044, Use by 13/Jun/17; Lot 77007058, Use by 27/Jun/17; - (b) Product Code 11269: Lot 77007023, Use by 22/Jul/17; Lot 77007044, Use by 12/Aug/17; Lot 77007058, Use by 26/Aug/17; Lot 77007072, Use by 09/Sep/17; Lot 77007079, Use by 16/Sep/17; - (c) Product Code 11270: Lot 77006354, Use by 17/Jun/17; Lot 77007009, Use by 08/Jul/17; Lot 77007023, Use by 22/Jul/17; Lot 77007058, Use by 26/Aug/17.

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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 3.7 years, from 26 April 2017 to termination on 14 January 2021. 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 34 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a prepared meal or sandwich run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Prepared meals concentrate every other category's hazards into one package: they are assembled from many components, handled after any cook step, sold ready to eat, and carry an ingredient list long enough to lose an allergen in.

Named in the distribution pattern: Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. 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

Filed under prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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 prepared meals and sandwiches 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 Rich Products Corp

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 21 other records name this firm.

All 22 records for Rich Products Corp

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