Natural Chocolate Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000476, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC…
Justin's Nut Butter recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 31 October 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o
The record
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- Product
- Natural Chocolate Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000476, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC 894455000506.
- UPC
- 894455000476
- Reason for recall
- A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o
- Recalling firm
- Justin's Nut Butter
- Firm location
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0304-2013
- Quantity
- 21,010 units
- Distribution
- Justin's products were distributed nationwide and Canada through distributors and supermarket chains. They were also available for direct purchase from the firm's website through their online partner, Eye Level Solutions and through Amazon. Distributors located in the following states: AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA, IL, IN, MA, NV, OR, PA, TN, TX, WA.
- Initiated
- 26 September 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 31 October 2012
- Terminated
- 8 March 2013
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Best By Dates from 03/23/11 to 10/10/2012.
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 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 26 September 2012 to termination on 8 March 2013. 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 14 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Washington. 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
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under milk and dairy, nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Justin's Nut Butter
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-11 | Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz Jar (Unit UPC 894455000490, Case UPC 894455000612) | Justin'S Nut Butter | Justin's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter. | Class III |
| 2013-09-11 | Maple Almond Butter 16 oz Jar (Unit USPC 894455000322, Case USPC 894455002135) | Justin'S Nut Butter | Justi's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter. | Class III |
| 2012-10-31 | Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, 5 lb, Material Number F0004701, 45 lb Material number F0033001. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Honey Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000001, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC 894455000094. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups 1.4 oz, UPC 894455000247. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups 1.4 oz, UPC 894455000254. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Classic Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000117, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC 894455000087. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Natural Honey Peanut Butter; 16 oz jars, UPC 855188003035; Natural Honey Peanut Butter Squeeze Packs 0.5 oz, UPC 894455000391, Natural Honey Peanut Butter Squeeze Packs 1.15 oz, UPC 855188003042. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Natural Classic Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 855188003004, 1.15 oz Squeeze Packs UPC 855188003011. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
All 10 records for Justin's Nut Butter
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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