Dark Chocolate Turbinado Sea Salt Almonds , 15 lbs., 10 lbs., 18/14 oz.,

GKI Foods, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 November 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. GKI Foods of Brighton, Michigan is voluntarily recalling multiple dark chocolate products because they may contain an undeclared milk allergen.

The record

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Product

Dark Chocolate Turbinado Sea Salt Almonds , 15 lbs., 10 lbs., 18/14 oz.,

Reason for recall

GKI Foods of Brighton, Michigan is voluntarily recalling multiple dark chocolate products because they may contain an undeclared milk allergen.

Recalling firm

GKI Foods, LLC

Firm location

Brighton, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0332-2018

Quantity

12,097 cases

Distribution

Domestic: MI, IN, IL, FL, TX, CA., NV, OR, NH, NY, NJ, VA, WI, KY, DE, PA, CT, PR, OH, RI, IA,

Initiated

27 October 2017

Reported by FDA

29 November 2017

Terminated

9 July 2018

Firm notified by

Press Release

Product codes

Retail Dark Chocolate Turbinado Sea Salt Almonds manufactured between 01/14/16 to 10/24/17; and Bulk Dark Chocolate Turbinado Sea Salt Almonds; Lot numbers: LOT# Lot# 068 Lot# 074 Lot# 02816 Lot# 04916 Lot# 07416 Lot# 11616B Lot# 11616 Lot# 11816 Lot# 11816B Lot# 12416B Lot# 12416 Lot# 13816 Lot# 13816B Lot# 14416B Lot# 16016 Lot# 21716 Lot# 22216 Lot# 26316B Lot# 28516 Lot# 29116 Lot# 29216 Lot# 00317 Lot# 01317 Lot# 03217 Lot# 03217B Lot# 09417 Lot# 10117 Lot# 10117B Lot# 12217B Lot# 12217 Lot# 14417 Lot# 15917 Lot# 15917B Lot# 20517B Lot# 25517B Lot# 25817B Lot# 26317B Lot# 26317 Lot# 25616B Lot# 160 Lot# 162 Lot# 134 Lot# 136 Lot# 137 Lot# 21716 Lot# 25616B Lot# 170 Lot# 171 Lot# 175 Lot# 176 Lot# 18817 Lot# 18817B Lot# 22217 Lot# 22217 Lot# 25517B Lot# 25517 Lot# 25817B Lot# 26917 Lot# 26917B Lot# 27117B Lot# 27117 Lot# 113 Lot# 134 Lot# 135 Lot# 136 Lot# 137 Lot# 138 Lot# 03916 Lot# 06216 Lot# 11616B Lot# 16016 Lot# 21716 Lot# 02/19/2017T Lot# 04/02/2017T Lot# 05/02/2017T Lot# 06/04/2017T Lot# 06/04/2017T Lot# 07/31/2017T Lot# 09/24/2017T Lot# 10/02/2017T Lot# 12/06/2017T Lot# 01/15/2018T Lot# 12/06/2017T Lot# 01/15/2018T Lot# 03/27/2018T Lot# 04/22/2018T Lot# 06/06/2018T Lot# 03/31/2019T Lot# 433 Lot# 436 Lot# 442 Lot# 22217 Lot# 25817B Lot# 28517 Lot# 11816 Lot# 08817 Lot# 11816 Lot# 20416 Lot# 27516B Lot# 06617 Lot# 12217B Lot# 24117B Lot# 04916 Lot# 09716 Lot# 09716 Lot# 14416B Lot# 26316B Lot# 32316 Lot# 01317 Lot# 05517 Lot# 06617 Lot# 10117 Lot# 14617 Lot# 02816 Lot# 02816 Lot# 02816 manufactured between 01/14/16 to 09/05/2017

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 21 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 21 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 21. 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 21 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 27 October 2017 to termination on 9 July 2018. 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 20 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.

Named in the distribution pattern: Indiana, Illinois, Florida, Texas, California, Nevada, Oregon, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Wisconsin, Kentucky, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Puerto Rico, Ohio, Rhode Island, Iowa. 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

The allergens named in this record: milk.

Filed under nuts and seeds, snacks and confectionery and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.

Other nuts and seeds 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 GKI Foods, LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 21 other records name this firm.

All 22 records for GKI Foods, LLC

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