LuLu Chinese Express Korean Noodles (Japchae) w/ Vegetables. Net Wt 16oz.
JX Restaurants, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 October 2023 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared allergen (egg)
The record
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- Product
- LuLu Chinese Express Korean Noodles (Japchae) w/ Vegetables. Net Wt 16oz.
- Reason for recall
- Undeclared allergen (egg)
- Recalling firm
- JX Restaurants, Inc.
- Firm location
- Maryland Heights, Missouri, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0007-2024
- Quantity
- 54 containers
- Distribution
- MO
- Initiated
- 3 April 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 18 October 2023
- Terminated
- 13 October 2023
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Sell By Dates through 4/11/2023
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 3 April 2023 to termination on 13 October 2023. 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 7 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
What this recall was for
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
The allergens named in this record: eggs.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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.
Other records from JX Restaurants, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-02-05 | LuLu Chinese Express, Sweet and Sour Shrimp w/ Fried Rice, Net Wt. 16 oz (1 lb), UPC 2393329006, packaged in plastic container. | JX Restaurants, Inc. | Soy is missing from the "Contains" statement. | Class II |
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.
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