ABSTRACT
These personnel and program cuts at some point bring each company to experience a costly mandatory or voluntary recall or a product withdrawal from the marketplace. In 2005, the Food and Drug Administration’s enforcement division performed 261 recalls: 131 class I recalls, 96 class II recalls, and 34 class III recalls. In 2006, the FDA performed 194 total recalls or field corrections of food and food products: 96 class I recalls, 67 class II recalls, and 31 class III recalls. These recalls implicated all facets of food products, including soda pop and juices, baked goods, spices and condiments, fresh and processed fruits and vegetables, sauces, dry mixes, dressings, ice cream and other dairy products, oils, and various fresh and processed fish or seafood. Companies that recalled products varied in size from large multinational firms, such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, Frito Lay, Interstate Brands, Dole, and Nabisco, down to small local companies such as Carlson Orchards, WestFarm Foods, Starway Inc., Golden Eagle Smoked Foods, and Aquafarms Catfish, Inc.; they were from all parts of the country.
