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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
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- UPC
- 769933052352
- 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-0250-2021
- 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:20289 Best by:1/13/2021 Lot:20307 Best by:1/31/2021 Lot:20321 Best by:2/14/2021 Lot:20338 Best by:3/3/2021 2. Lot 20289 best by: 03/14/2021 Lot 20307 best by: 04/01/2021 Lot 20322 Best by: 4/16/2021 Lot 20339 Best by 1/25/2021 3. Lot:20308 Best by:3/3/2021 Lot:20317 Best by:3/12/2021 Lot:20329 Best by:4/3/2021 Lot:20349 best by:4/13/2021 Lot:20353 best by:4/15/2021 4. Lot:20296 Best by:1/20/2021 Lot:20300 Best by:1/24/2021 Lot:20304 Best by:1/28/2021 Lot:20317 Best by:2/10/2021 Lot:20321 Best by:2/14/2021 Lot:20342 best by:3/7/2021 Lot:20351 Best by:3/16/2021 Lot:20363 best by:3/28/2021 5. Lot:20261 Best by:2/14/2021 Lot: 20268 Best by: 1/22/2021 Lot: 20281 Best by: 2/4/2021 Lot: 20293 Best by :2/16/2021 Lot: 20301 Best by: 2/21/2021 Lot: 20309 Best by: 3/4/2021 Lot: 20329 Best by: 4/3/2021 lot: 20344 best by" 4/8/2021 6. Lot:20296 Best by: 1/20/2021 Lot:20303 Best by: 1/27/2021 Lot: 20335 Best by: 2/28/2021 Lot: 20350 Best by: 3/15/2021 Lot: 20358 Best by: 3/23/2021 Lot: 20363 Best by: 3/28/2021 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. 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 14 of them.
- 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 a snack or confectionery product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Snacks and confectionery recall for allergens more than for anything else, because a chocolate or a coated snack passes through shared equipment carrying milk, soy and nuts, and the label is the only control between them and the consumer.
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 snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other snacks and confectionery 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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