Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold)
Food recall F-2279-2016. Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Sep 21, 2016.
- FDA Class I
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The short answer
Published in FDA’s Enforcement Report on Sep 21, 2016. Copied from openFDA on Oct 20, 2026.
- Class I FDA’s most serious class (needs attention)
- Terminated its status, in FDA’s file
- 20 states named in where it went
- 805,616 lbs. Expanded quantity: 334,318 lbs. how much, in FDA’s words
Every line below is in FDA’s own words, with its source beside it. FDA’s terms are explained in FDA’s own words.
How serious is it, by FDA’s class?
Class I, the most serious of FDA’s three classes.
“Dangerous or defective products that predictably could cause serious health problems or death. Examples include: food found to contain botulinum toxin, food with undeclared allergens, a label mix-up on a lifesaving drug, or a defective artificial heart valve.”
openFDA, in plain words, its enforcement report fields.
“Class I is a situation in which there is a reasonable probability that the use of, or exposure to, a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.”
FDA’s rule, 21 CFR 7.3(m)(1), eCFR.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
What’s wrong with it?
Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold) and Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn are recalled due to the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Which ones are recalled?
Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold), net wt. 5 lbs., item V5398, UPC 681241153986. Trader Joe’s Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn, net wt. 16 oz., item 5474, UPC 0029 9633. *********NICHIREI BRANDS ARE NOT DISTRIBUTED IN THE US***** Nichirei Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn, item V5599, UPC 4 902130 363610 Nichirei Value + Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn, item V5801, UPC 4 949486 327026
805,616 lbs. Expanded quantity: 334,318 lbs., in FDA’s words.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Codes to check against yours
Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold) CODES: Best Before 03/18/17 6180 03 18 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/09/17 6180 04 09 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/13/17 6180 04 13 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/14/17 6180 04 14 17 HH:MM Best…
Every code shown here, 959 characters
Watts Brothers Farms Organic Super Sweet Corn (Yellow/Gold) CODES: Best Before 03/18/17 6180 03 18 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/09/17 6180 04 09 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/13/17 6180 04 13 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/14/17 6180 04 14 17 HH:MM Best Before 04/29/17 6180 04 29 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/18/17 6180 05 18 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/19/17 6180 05 19 17 HH:MM Best Before 05/28/17 6180 05 28 17 HH:MM Best Before 06/12/17 6180 06 12 17 HH:MM expanded codes: Best Before 08/07/17 6180 08 07 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/01/17 6180 09 01 17 HH:MM Best Before 09/02/17 6180 09 02 17 HH:MM *********************************************************************************** Trader Joe’s Organic Super Sweet Cut Corn CODES 6180 03237HH 6180 03247HH 6180 06287HH 6180 06297HH 6180 06307HH 6180 07137HH 6180 08117HH 6180 08127HH 6180 08137HH ************codes for NICHIREI brand************* 2017.1.1/KH4 2017.2.17/KH4 2017.2.18/KH4 2016.12.28/KH4 expanded code: 2016.12.29/KH4
Copied exactly as FDA lists them: lot and serial numbers, dates and other codes on the product or its label.
Barcodes and drug codes
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UPC
681241153986 -
UPC
00299633 -
UPC
4902130363610 -
UPC
4949486327026
As FDA’s description and codes give them; the UPCs written as digits only.
Where did it go?
FDA’s words for the “general area of initial distribution”: where the firm first shipped it.
distributed in AZ, CA, CO, FL, HI, IA, ID, IL, LA, MD, MN, NJ, NV, OH, OK, PA, TX, UT, VA, and WI and in the following countries: Canada, Columbia, Japan, and Panama.
The states and territories these words name
20 states and territories.
Every one of them
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Iowa
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Louisiana
- Maryland
- Minnesota
- New Jersey
- Nevada
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Pennsylvania
- Texas
- Utah
- Virginia
- Wisconsin
The words say it went outside the United States too.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Is it still going on?
Terminated, in FDA’s file.
“FDA has determined that all reasonable efforts have been made to remove or correct the violative product in accordance with the recall strategy, and proper disposition has been made according to the degree of hazard.”
openFDA, on “Terminated”, its enforcement report fields.
What these words mean is quoted from openFDA’s field reference and 21 CFR 7.3.
- The firm began the recall on May 5, 2016.
- FDA classified it on Sep 15, 2016.
- FDA’s Enforcement Report published it on Sep 21, 2016.
- FDA terminated it on Aug 22, 2017.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
Who is recalling it?
- ConAgra Foods Inc, of Omaha, NE.
- Who began it, in FDA’s words: Voluntary: Firm initiated.
- How the firm first told its customers: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit.
FDA, Food recall enforcement reports. Released Oct 14, 2026. Updated weekly.
What this record can’t tell you
- Whether your own one is affected: compare the codes, dates and numbers above with yours. When unsure, ask the firm or the store.
- Where it went after the firm’s first shipments. FDA’s words cover the firm’s initial distribution, and, in FDA’s words, “subsequent distribution by the consignees to other parties may not be included.”
- How many have been returned, corrected or destroyed: FDA’s report doesn’t say.
- Whether anyone was hurt or fell ill: the report doesn’t say.
- How current it is: openFDA publishes FDA’s Enforcement Report weekly, after FDA does, and a firm can announce a recall weeks before it appears there. openFDA’s own caution: “This data should not be used as a method to collect data to issue alerts to the public, nor should it be used to track the lifecycle of a recall.”
- Meat, poultry and egg products are recalled by USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, not FDA, and its recalls aren’t here yet: see fsis.usda.gov.
- A product with no recall here isn’t safe by that: FDA’s report lists the recalls FDA classified, and when.
Hearth Record wrote these lines; the quotations are FDA’s.
Sources
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U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Food recall enforcement reports.
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