TK019 2017 Choc Cup Powder Blend Bag 50#. Item number 4005543
Puratos Corporation (HQ and Innovation Center) recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 8 December 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may be contaminated with foreign material (metal)
The record
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- Product
- TK019 2017 Choc Cup Powder Blend Bag 50#. Item number 4005543
- Reason for recall
- Product may be contaminated with foreign material (metal)
- Recalling firm
- Puratos Corporation (HQ and Innovation Center)
- Firm location
- Pennsauken, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0249-2022
- Quantity
- 119,900 lbs
- Distribution
- Distributed to domestic customers in CA, NJ, IN, PA, TN, NY, NC, TX, FL, DE, LA, and LA. Distributed to foreign customers in Dominican Republic and Trinidad.
- Initiated
- 29 October 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 8 December 2021
- Terminated
- 28 August 2023
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Batch Numbers 0010636571 and 0010636577
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 20 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 20 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 20. 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 20 of them.
- The recall ran for 22 months, from 29 October 2021 to termination on 28 August 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 10 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Named in the distribution pattern: New Jersey, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Florida, Delaware, Louisiana. 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
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.
Other records from Puratos Corporation (HQ and Innovation Center)
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 19 other records name this firm.
All 20 records for Puratos Corporation (HQ and Innovation Center)
All 2021 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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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