Watts Brothers Farms Organic Mixed Vegetables, UPC 681241053484. ************Foodservice…
ConAgra Foods Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 September 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Organic Mixed Vegetables are recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Watts Brothers Farms Organic Mixed Vegetables, UPC 681241053484. ************Foodservice Products******************** Watts Tote 4-Way Mixed Vegetables, item 3902 Watts Brothers 5 Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5173 Watts Brothers 4 Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5218 Watts Brothers 5 Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5246 Watts Brothers 4 Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5412 Sc 3623 12/40 oz 5-Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5359 Sc 2975 1/30# 5-Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5363 Sr 4493 12/40 oz 5-Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5370 Sr 2991 1/30# 5-Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5374 Alasko 6/2Kg 4-Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5448 Alasko 6/2Kg 4-Way Mixed Vegetables, item V5453 *********NICHIREI BRANDS ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED IN THE US***** Nichirei Organic Mixed Vegetables, item V5600, UPC 4 902130 363641. Nichirei Value + Organic Mixed Vegetables, item V5803, UPC 4 949486 327019
- UPC
- 681241053484
- Reason for recall
- Organic Mixed Vegetables are recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- ConAgra Foods Inc
- Firm location
- Omaha, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2278-2016
- Quantity
- 7,543,480 lbs. - expanded recall 2,962,179 lbs.
- Distribution
- distributed in AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, IA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MN, NJ, NV, OH, OK, PA, TX, UT, VA, and WI and in the following countries: Canada, Columbia, Japan, and Panama.
- Initiated
- 5 May 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 21 September 2016
- Terminated
- 22 August 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Additional codes recalled on 7/28/16 Best Before 01/08/17 6180 01 08 17 HH:MM Best Before 01/09/17 6180 01 09 17 HH:MM Best Before 02/02/17 6180 02 02 17 HH:MM Best Before 02/11/17 6180 02 11 17 HH:MM Best Before 02/26/17 6180 02 26 17 HH:MM Best Before 03/04/17 6180 03 04 17 HH:MM Best Before 03/05/17 6180 03 05 17 HH:MM Best Before 03/23/17 6180 03 23 17 HH:MM Best Before 06/29/17 6180 06 29 17 HH:MM Best Before 06/30/17 6180 06 30 17 HH:MM Best Before 07/23/17 6180 07 23 17 HH:MM Best Before 07/24/17 6180 07 24 17 HH:MM Best Before 08/10/17 6180 08 10 17 HH:MM Best Before 08/31/17 6180 08 31 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/04/17 6180 09 04 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/23/17 6180 09 23 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/24/17 6180 09 24 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/25/17 6180 09 25 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/01/17 6180 10 01 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/02/17 6180 10 02 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/14/17 6180 10 14 17 HH:MM Best Before 12/09/17 6180 12 09 17 HH:MM Best Before 12/10/17 6180 12 10 17 HH:MM Best Before 01/13/18 6180 01 13 18 HH:MM Best Before 01/15/18 6180 01 15 18 HH:MM Best Before 02/03/18 6180 02 03 18 HH:MM ******************************************************************** Best Before 09/30/16 6180 09 30 16 HH:MM Best Before 10/01/16 6180 10 01 16 HH:MM Best Before 10/16/16 6180 10 16 16 HH:MM Best Before 12/03/16 6180 12 03 16 HH:MM Best Before 12/11/16 6180 12 11 16 HH:MM Best Before 12/12/16 6180 12 12 16 HH:MM Best Before 12/16/16 6180 12 16 16 HH:MM Best Before 12/17/16 6180 12 17 16 HH:MM Best Before 01/20/17 6180 01 20 17 HH:MM Best Before 01/21/17 6180 01 21 17 HH:MM Best Before 02/03/17 6180 02 03 17 HH:MM Best Before 02/12/17 6180 02 12 17 HH:MM Best Before 02/26/17 6180 02 26 17 HH:MM Best Before 03/31/17 6180 03 31 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/17/17 6180 04 17 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/24/17 6180 04 24 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/25/17 6180 04 25 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/08/17 6180 05 08 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/12/17 6180 05 12 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/26/17 6180 05 26 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/27/17 6180 05 27 17 HH:MM Best Before 08/07/17 6180 08 07 17 HH:MM Best Before 08/27/17 6180 08 27 17 HH:MM Best Before 08/28/17 6180 08 28 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/01/17 6180 09 01 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/22/17 6180 10 22 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/23/17 6180 10 23 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/24/17 6180 10 24 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/25/17 6180 10 25 17 HH:MM Best Before 10/26/17 6180 10 26 17 HH:MM Best Before 01/14/18 6180 01 14 18 HH:MM Best Before 01/23/18 6180 01 23 18 HH:MM Best Before 01/24/18 6180 01 24 18 HH:MM Best Before 01/25/18 6180 01 25 18 HH:MM Best Before 02/09/18 6180 02 09 18 HH:MM Best Before 02/10/18 6180 02 10 18 HH:MM Best Before 02/26/18 6180 02 26 18 HH:MM Best Before 03/12/18 6180 03 12 18 HH:MM Best Before 03/30/18 6180 03 30 18 HH:MM Best Before 03/31/18 6180 03 31 18 HH:MM Best Before 04/05/18 6180 04 05 18 HH:MM Best Before 04/06/18 6180 04 06 18 HH:MM Best Before 04/13/18 6180 04 13 18 HH:MM Best Before 04/22/18 6180 04 22 18 HH:MM *****Foodservice codes***************************** Produced after May 1, 2014 best before date after April 26, 2016 *****NICHIREI codes*********** 2017.1.1/KH4 2017.1.2/KH4 2017.5.18/KH4 2016.12.29/KH4 2017.2.13/KH4 2017.2.14/KH4 expanded code: 2017.5.19/KH4
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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 16 months, from 5 May 2016 to termination on 22 August 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 distribution pattern names 19 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 months after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, 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
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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 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 records from ConAgra Foods Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 15 other records name this firm.
All 16 records for ConAgra Foods, INc.
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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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