Frozen Raw Bulk 8 inch Blueberry Crumble Pie (4 pies/case). Net wt. 24.5oz.
Willamette Valley Pie Company, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 March 2026 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential contamination with listeria monocytogenes.
The record
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Product
Frozen Raw Bulk 8 inch Blueberry Crumble Pie (4 pies/case). Net wt. 24.5oz. UPC 0002251881223. Handmade - Willamette Valley Pie Company LLC. 1651 Eska Way, Silverton, OR. Frozen Raw pies were sold frozen in bulk packaging to grocery retailers' in-store bakeries. They are intended to be baked by the retailer before consumer sale. Frozen pies were not sold to consumers at retail stores. Product is labeled with BAKING INSTRUCTIONS: Convection Oven: Preheat convection oven to 350 degrees F. Bake pies for 25 minutes. Reduce heat to 335 degrees. Bake for an additional 30-35 minutes. Ovens will vary. Adjust time and temperature accordingly. Conventional Oven: Preheat to 350 degrees F. Bake for 40-45 minutes. Suggestions: Brush a sugar wash, then sprinkle with turbinado sugar, or use egg wash before baking. For best results, allow to cool 3-4 hours.
UPC
0002251881223
Reason for recall
Potential contamination with listeria monocytogenes.
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
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 is one of 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 19 February 2026 to termination on 3 April 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks 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.
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.
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
Potential contamination with listeria monocytogenes.
Class II
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.
Raspberry Rhubarb Pie packages were recalled due to undeclared artificial almond. The actual product inside a clamshell package is Cherry Pie, which contains artificial almond extract, but it was mislabeled as Raspberry Rhubarb Pie. The Rhubarb Pie label does not declare artificial almond extract.
Cherry Pie packages were recalled due to being misbranded. The actual product inside clamshell package is Raspberry Rhubarb Pie, but it was mislabeled as Cherry Pie. Raspberry Rhubarb Pie does NOT contain artificial almond extract.
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.
Recall 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.
