Millville Maple & Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal 15.1 oz. 10 individual serving size…
Aldi Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 November 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Complaints of insects in product
The record
Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.
- Product
- Millville Maple & Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal 15.1 oz. 10 individual serving size packets per 15.1oz retail unit. UPC: 041498 149628
- UPC
- 041498149628
- Reason for recall
- Complaints of insects in product
- Recalling firm
- Aldi Inc
- Firm location
- Batavia, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0406-2019
- Quantity
- 37,200
- Distribution
- Aldi stores in: CT DE GA MA MD NC NH NJ NY OH PA RI SC TN VA VT WV
- Initiated
- 27 September 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 14 November 2018
- Terminated
- 1 March 2019
- Firm notified by
- Other
- Product codes
- Best Before: November 17, 2019 and November 31, 2019
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 27 September 2018 to termination on 1 March 2019. 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 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
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 grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta 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 Aldi Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-13 | Simply Nature Organic Red Split Lentils, 16 oz bag, UPC 041498299507 | Aldi Inc | Product may contain undeclared wheat | Class II |
| 2020-05-13 | Simply Nature Organic Green Lentils, 16 oz bag, UPC 041498299514 | Aldi Inc | Product may contain undeclared wheat | Class II |
| 2018-08-15 | AnnaSea Wasabi Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits | Aldi Inc | ALDI has voluntarily recalled AnnaSea Wasabi Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits and Limu Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits due to storing the products at temperatures above freezing prior to consumption which can render the products unsafe for consumption. | Class II |
| 2018-08-15 | AnnaSea Limu Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits | Aldi Inc | ALDI has voluntarily recalled AnnaSea Wasabi Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits and Limu Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits due to storing the products at temperatures above freezing prior to consumption which can render the products unsafe for consumption. | Class II |
| 2017-12-27 | Choceur Dark Chocolate Bars, 5.29 oz., 20 units/case | Aldi Inc | ALDI has voluntarily recalled Choceur Dark Chocolate Bars due to the potential presence of almond pieces, which are an undeclared treenut allergen. | Class I |
| 2012-07-11 | Northern Catch Harvest of the Sea Fancy Whole Oysters and SeaNet Fancy Whole Oysters; Net Wt. 8 oz (227g) cans, 12 cans per carton; Distributed by Aldi Inc., Batavia, IL 60510-1477; Product of Korea; UPC 0 41498 11984 3 | Aldi Inc | The product has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health. | Class III |
All 2018 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.
Early accessRecall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.