Class ITerminated · reported 2015-12-30

Basma 3 Chris Court Dayton, New Jersey 08810 Tel.:7323559600 Fax: 7323559644 16 oz…

UNITED TRADING CENTER INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 30 December 2015 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contains undeclared sulfites.

The record

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Product: Basma 3 Chris Court Dayton, New Jersey 08810 Tel.:7323559600 Fax: 7323559644 16 oz package This golden raisin product is labeled in a foreign language.
Reason for recall: Product contains undeclared sulfites.
Recalling firm: UNITED TRADING CENTER INC
Firm location: Dayton, New Jersey, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-0285-2016
Quantity: 5cases of 1 lb pk;
Distribution: NY, PA
Initiated: 15 September 2015
Reported by FDA: 30 December 2015
Terminated: 28 April 2016
Firm notified by: Telephone
Product codes: no code on bag

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. 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 2 of them.
The recall ran for 7 months, from 15 September 2015 to termination on 28 April 2016. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months 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 York, Pennsylvania. 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

Undeclared allergens

An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.

A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2): Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
21 CFR 101.4: Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
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.

The allergens named in this record: sulfites.

Other records from UNITED TRADING CENTER INC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2015-12-30	TRC Golden Medium Raisins Packed by: The Raisin Company (PTY) LTD FActory AT: Noagspaal, Marchand, South Africa PO BOx 77, Marchand 8873 Produce of South Africa	UNITED TRADING CENTER INC	Product contains undeclared sulfites.	Class I

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