Item 10573 - BLUEBERRY BREAKFAST BARS, I/W>100CT(2.9OZ)/CS, Frozen, Net. Wt. 18.13 lbs.

Correctional Industries Food Factory recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 July 2017 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product is recalled because it was made with water contaminated with chemicals perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). The observed PFOS and PFOA levels exceed EPA's 2016 combined Lifetime Health Advisory levels for drinking water (70 parts per trillion [ppt]).

The record

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Product

Item 10573 - BLUEBERRY BREAKFAST BARS, I/W>100CT(2.9OZ)/CS, Frozen, Net. Wt. 18.13 lbs. per case

Reason for recall

Product is recalled because it was made with water contaminated with chemicals perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). The observed PFOS and PFOA levels exceed EPA's 2016 combined Lifetime Health Advisory levels for drinking water (70 parts per trillion [ppt]).

Recalling firm

Correctional Industries Food Factory

Firm location

Airway Heights, Washington, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2499-2017

Quantity

961 lbs.

Distribution

distribution in AZ, MT, NV, OR, and WA.

Initiated

18 May 2017

Reported by FDA

19 July 2017

Terminated

31 August 2017

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

no codes, no expiration dates. Mfg dates: April 1, 2017 to May 15, 2017.

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 60 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 60 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 60. 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 60 of them.
• The recall ran for 3 months, from 18 May 2017 to termination on 31 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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: Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under fresh produce. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Correctional Industries Food Factory

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 59 other records name this firm.

All 60 records for Correctional Industries Food Factory

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