Chocolate Selection (Holiday and regular) 1.Holiday Selection label reads in part: "Lake…
Champlain Chocolate Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 February 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Chocolate may contain plastic pieces
The record
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- Product
- Chocolate Selection (Holiday and regular) 1.Holiday Selection label reads in part: "Lake Champlain Chocolates ***Chocolate Selection***Net Wt 9 oz. (255g)***An Irresistible 'BEST OF' Holiday Collection***Ingredients: DARK, MILK, AND 'WHITE CHOCOLATE...***Lake Champlain Chocolates***750 Pine Street***Burlington, Vermont 05401***15 PIECES" Online Stock Code: 1X301-015001-1 1. UPC: 76993304604 2. Holiday selection label reads in part: Lake Champlain Chocolates Chocolate Selection 1.1 lbs.**Ingredients: DARK, MILK, AND 'WHITE CHOCOLATE...Lake Champlain Chocolates750 Pine Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 15 PIECES Stock code:1X301-030002-1 UPC: 76993304605 3.Lake Champlain Chocolates Chocolate Selection, 1.1 lbs. Ingredients: DARK, MILK, AND 'WHITE CHOCOLATE...Lake Champlain Chocolates 750 Pine Street Burlington, Vermont 05401, 30 PIECES" Online Stock Code: 1Y301-030002-1 UPC: 76993304603 4. Lake Champlain Chocolates Chocolate Selection, Net Wt 9 oz. (255g) Ingredients: DARK, MILK, AND 'WHITE CHOCOLATE...Lake Champlain Chocolates 750 Pine Street Burlington, Vermont 05401 15 PIECES Online Stock Code: 1Y301-015001-1 UPC: 76993304602
- UPC
- 769933046042
- Reason for recall
- Chocolate may contain plastic pieces
- Recalling firm
- Champlain Chocolate Company
- Firm location
- Williston, Vermont, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0246-2021
- Quantity
- 62396.07 lbs. Total
- Distribution
- all 50 states - nationwide
- Initiated
- 15 January 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 10 February 2021
- Terminated
- 11 January 2022
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- 1. Lot: 20303 Best By:1/27/2021 Lot 20309 Best by: 2/2/2021 Lot 20316 Best by: 2/9/2021 Lot: 20330 Best by: 2/23/2021 Lot 20342 Best by: 3/7/2021 Lot: 20351 Best by: 3/16/2021 Lot: 20356 Best By: 3/21/2021 2. Lot: 20301 best by: 1/25/2021 Lot: 20311 Best by: 2/4/2021 Lot: 20329 Best by: 2/22/2021 Lot: 20335 Best by: 2/28/2021 Lot: 20345 Best by: 3/10/2021 3.Lot: 20301 Best By:1/25/2021 Lot: 20311 Best by: 2/4/2021 Lot: 20328 Best by: 2/21/2021 Lot: 20342 Best by: 3/7/2021 4. Lot:20303 Best by: 1/27/2021 Lot: 20316 Best by: 2/9/2021 Lot: 20321 Best by: 2/14/2021 Lot: 20329 Best by: 2/22/2021 Lot: 20345 Best by: 3/10/2021 Lot: 21011 Best by: 4/11/2021
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 14 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 14 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 14. All 14 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 12 months, from 15 January 2021 to termination on 11 January 2022. 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 FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under milk and dairy and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 14 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 13 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
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.
Other records from Champlain Chocolate Company
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 16 other records name this firm.
All 17 records for Champlain Chocolate Company
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21 CFR 117.40 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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