Maisie Jane's Smooth almond butter, 12 oz glass jar, 6 units per case, shelf stable
Maisie Jane's California Sunshine Products Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 October 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. High levels of aflatoxin
The record
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- Product
- Maisie Jane's Smooth almond butter, 12 oz glass jar, 6 units per case, shelf stable
- Reason for recall
- High levels of aflatoxin
- Recalling firm
- Maisie Jane's California Sunshine Products Inc.
- Firm location
- Chico, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0012-2024
- Quantity
- 4,834 jars
- Distribution
- The product is distributed throughout the United States. Total number of consignees (customers) that received the recall product: 13. Consignees who received recalled product are in the following states: FL, TX, PA, WI, NY, GA, CA, OH.
- Initiated
- 2 October 2023
- Reported by FDA
- 18 October 2023
- Terminated
- 10 September 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot Code 30122, Best by used by 10/24
Reading this record
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 11 months, from 2 October 2023 to termination on 10 September 2024. 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 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
Named in the distribution pattern: Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New York, Georgia, California, Ohio. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Filed under milk and dairy and nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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.
All 2023 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.35(b) 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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