Raw chicken in a ready-to-eat sandwich (H-1149-2026) — only 26 of 1,408 records are marked as finished

1The premise of eating it as it comes

A sandwich is built to be eaten without cooking. What the stated reason records is that a product built on that premise had raw breaded chicken patties used in it by mistake. Raw chicken can carry Salmonella, which is why it is normally cooked through before eating. Put it into a product that assumes no cooking, and that step simply disappears.

Distribution covers two states, Oregon and Washington, the quantity is 377 units, and the record notes sale not through retail but to employees in certain workplace breakrooms.

2Records mark beginnings, rarely endings

Records showing that a recall has finished number 26 in total. Everything else remains ongoing. Break it down further and every finished record belongs to food. Not one of the 288 drug records is finished, and among 779 device records exactly one is marked completed. The sensible reading is not that drug and device recalls never end, but that their ending is rarely reflected here.

3What separates completed from terminated

The two mark different stages. A firm finishing its work and an authority finishing its oversight happen separately. Within the records held here, though, both are rare enough that reading the status field to learn whether something is now safe is, in practice, not available.

4How to read a record that has not finished

Ongoing does not necessarily mean the danger continues. It can mean the recall work is genuinely still running, or it can mean the status was never updated. Nothing in the record distinguishes the two. So the status field is safe to use in one direction only: if it says finished, it finished. From the absence of that mark, neither continuation nor completion can be concluded.