Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold), net wt. 5 lbs., item V5398…
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 Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold) and Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn are recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold), net wt. 5 lbs., item V5398, UPC 681241153986. Trader Joe's Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn, net wt. 16 oz., item 5474, UPC 0029 9633. *********NICHIREI BRANDS ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED IN THE US***** Nichirei Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn, item V5599, UPC 4 902130 363610 Nichirei Value + Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn, item V5801, UPC 4 949486 327026
- UPC
- 681241153986
- Reason for recall
- Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold) and Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn 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-2279-2016
- Quantity
- 805,616 lbs. Expanded quantity: 334,318 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
- Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold) CODES: Best Before 03/18/17 6180 03 18 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/09/17 6180 04 09 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/13/17 6180 04 13 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/14/17 6180 04 14 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/29/17 6180 04 29 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/18/17 6180 05 18 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/19/17 6180 05 19 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/28/17 6180 05 28 17 HH:MM Best Before 06/12/17 6180 06 12 17 HH:MM expanded codes: Best Before 08/07/17 6180 08 07 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/01/17 6180 09 01 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/02/17 6180 09 02 17 HH:MM *********************************************************************************** Trader Joe's Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn CODES 6180 03237HH 6180 03247HH 6180 06287HH 6180 06297HH 6180 06307HH 6180 07137HH 6180 08117HH 6180 08127HH 6180 08137HH ************codes for NICHIREI brand************* 2017.1.1/KH4 2017.2.17/KH4 2017.2.18/KH4 2016.12.28/KH4 expanded code: 2016.12.29/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. 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 4 of them.
- 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.
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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