IQF frozen Blueberry (30lbs. cases and 1400 lbs. totes), product of USA.
Oregon Potato Company LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 March 2026 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Listeria monocytogenes
The record
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- Product
- IQF frozen Blueberry (30lbs. cases and 1400 lbs. totes), product of USA. Product is packaged in polyethylene bag within a corrugated 30lbs. case or packaged in polyethylene liner within a Gaylord 1400lbs. tote. Frozen blueberries were not sold to consumers from retail stores. Willamette Valley Fruit Company 2994 82nd Ave. NE Salem OR 97305
- Reason for recall
- Listeria monocytogenes
- Recalling firm
- Oregon Potato Company LLC
- Firm location
- Salem, Oregon, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- H-0522-2026
- Quantity
- 55,689 lbs.
- Distribution
- Distributed in MI, OR, WA, WI and in Canada.
- Initiated
- 12 February 2026
- Reported by FDA
- 4 March 2026
- Terminated
- 27 August 2026
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot codes on 30 lbs. CASES: 2055 B2, 2065 B1, and 2065 B3. Lot codes on 1400 lbs. TOTES: 3305 A1 and 3305 B1. Expiration dates or best-by date: 2055 B2 expiration 7/23/2027 2065 B1 expiration 7/24/2027 2065 B3 expiration 7/24/2027 3305 A1 expiration 11/25/2027 3305 B1 expiration 11/25/2027
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 6 months, from 12 February 2026 to termination on 27 August 2026. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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: Oregon, Washington, 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.
Filed under fresh produce. 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.
All 2026 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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.
Early accessRecall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.