Eillien's Cranberry Sesame Sunflower Kernel Mix, Net WT 14 oz (397 g), UPC 034952586572…

Eillien's Candies, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 September 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Eillien's Candies was notified by Sunopta, an ingredient supplier that the sunflower kernels may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. In turn Eillien's in recalling a number of products manufactured with Roasted Salted Sunflower Kernels and / or Roasted Unsalted Sunflower Kernels. There have been no reported illnesses to date.

The record

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Product

Eillien's Cranberry Sesame Sunflower Kernel Mix, Net WT 14 oz (397 g), UPC 034952586572, Item # 698274. 10/22/16. Item #512236, WIP EIL CRAN SESAME KERN MX25#, 512236. 6/21/16, 8/11/16

UPC

034952586572

Reason for recall

Eillien's Candies was notified by Sunopta, an ingredient supplier that the sunflower kernels may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. In turn Eillien's in recalling a number of products manufactured with Roasted Salted Sunflower Kernels and / or Roasted Unsalted Sunflower Kernels. There have been no reported illnesses to date.

Recalling firm

Eillien's Candies, Inc.

Firm location

Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2321-2016

Quantity

62,229 cases for total products.

Distribution

IL, IA, MI, MN, NY, ND, OK, SD, TX, WI.

Initiated

23 May 2016

Reported by FDA

28 September 2016

Terminated

30 March 2017

Firm notified by

Letter

Product codes

Best By Date 10/22/16, 6/21/16, 8/11/16

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 15 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 15 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 15. 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 15 of them.
• The recall ran for 10 months, from 23 May 2016 to termination on 30 March 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 10 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.

Named in the distribution pattern: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, 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 fresh produce and nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce 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 Eillien's Candies, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 17 other records name this firm.

All 18 records for Eillien's Candies, Inc.

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