NUT 14-500, powder, plant enzyme blend, packaged in 15 kg and 23 kg double poly bags…

American Laboratories Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 November 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The products may be contaminated with Chloramphenicol.

The record

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Product

NUT 14-500, powder, plant enzyme blend, packaged in 15 kg and 23 kg double poly bags inside fiber box. Product 98A

Reason for recall

The products may be contaminated with Chloramphenicol.

Recalling firm

American Laboratories Inc

Firm location

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0093-2014

Quantity

1/23 KG-box and 2/15 KG-box

Distribution

Distribution was made to IA, UT, NV, NE and CA.

Initiated

30 September 2013

Reported by FDA

13 November 2013

Terminated

16 April 2014

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

15 KGS: Lot ALI13212-04; re-evaluation date 1/31/2015 and 23 KGS: Lot # ALI13036-01; re-evaluation date 8/5/2104. **Lot ALI13212-04 mathmatical analysis tested "probably < 0.3 ppb in final product" **Lot ALI13036-01 mathmatical analysis tested "probably NOT < 0.3 ppb in final product"

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 is one of 9 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 9 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 9. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 9 of them.
• The recall ran for 7 months, from 30 September 2013 to termination on 16 April 2014. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.

Named in the distribution pattern: Utah, Nevada, Nebraska, California. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

Filed under nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.

Other nuts and seeds recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 American Laboratories Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.

All 9 records for American Laboratories Inc

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