Cascadian Farm Organic Cut Green Beans, Net Wt. 10 oz (284g) Keep Frozen.
General Mills, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 7 October 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. General Mills is recall one lot of 10 ounce bags of frozen Cascadian Farm Cut Green Beans because one package tested positive for the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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- Product
- Cascadian Farm Organic Cut Green Beans, Net Wt. 10 oz (284g) Keep Frozen.
- Reason for recall
- General Mills is recall one lot of 10 ounce bags of frozen Cascadian Farm Cut Green Beans because one package tested positive for the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.
- Recalling firm
- General Mills, Inc
- Firm location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-3248-2015
- Quantity
- 5833 cases
- Distribution
- Nationwide. No OUS distribution
- Initiated
- 26 August 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 7 October 2015
- Terminated
- 28 March 2016
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Date Codes: 10APR2016, and 11APR2016
Reading this record
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- 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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 26 August 2015 to termination on 28 March 2016. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks 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.
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 General Mills, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 37 other records name this firm.
All 38 records for General Mills, 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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