Class IITerminated · reported 2022-01-19

Everything Swapples, Net Wt. 11.14 OZ, UPC 8 64390 00021 3

SWAP FOODS LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 January 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product contained an ingredient that may be contaminated with small pieces of plastic.

The record

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Product: Everything Swapples, Net Wt. 11.14 OZ, UPC 8 64390 00021 3
UPC: 864390000213
Reason for recall: Product contained an ingredient that may be contaminated with small pieces of plastic.
Recalling firm: SWAP FOODS LLC
Firm location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Classification: Class II
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-0504-2022
Quantity: 248/6 boxes/cases
Distribution: Distributed to two distribution centers in PA and WI. Further distributed for sale in retail stores.
Initiated: 3 January 2022
Reported by FDA: 19 January 2022
Terminated: 13 December 2022
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: Lot 21230-02, BEST BY 08/2023

Reading this record

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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 11 months, from 3 January 2022 to termination on 13 December 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 2 weeks 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.

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.

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