Dried Kiwi Slice, Net Wt: 8 oz., AA USA Trading Inc. 47 Reid St. South River, NJ 08882…
AA USA Trading Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 February 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. AA USA Trading Inc. is recalling Dried Tai Sweet Mango Slice (FL 378858) because the product contains undeclared FD&C Yellow #6 and Dried Kiwi Slice (FL 378859 because this product contains undeclared FD&C Blue #1, FD&C Yellow #5. Undeclared sulfites were also in the 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
- Dried Kiwi Slice, Net Wt: 8 oz., AA USA Trading Inc. 47 Reid St. South River, NJ 08882 UPC 6 944155 210041
- UPC
- 6944155210041
- Reason for recall
- AA USA Trading Inc. is recalling Dried Tai Sweet Mango Slice (FL 378858) because the product contains undeclared FD&C Yellow #6 and Dried Kiwi Slice (FL 378859 because this product contains undeclared FD&C Blue #1, FD&C Yellow #5. Undeclared sulfites were also in the product.
- Recalling firm
- AA USA Trading Inc.
- Firm location
- South River, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0528-2016
- Quantity
- 200 bags
- Distribution
- NJ and NY
- Initiated
- 14 December 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 24 February 2016
- Terminated
- 14 June 2017
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- distribution dates 7/1-12/11/2014
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 18 months, from 14 December 2015 to termination on 14 June 2017. 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 2 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 Jersey, New York. 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 AA USA Trading Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-06-01 | AA USA Trading Inc. Ginger Slice Net Wt: 8 oz., AA USA Trading Inc. 47 Reid St. South River, NJ 08882 | AA USA Trading Inc. | Ginger slices contain undeclared sulfites. | Class I |
| 2016-02-24 | Dried Tai Sweet Mango Slice, Net Wt: 8 oz., AA USA Trading Inc. 47 Reid St. South River, NJ 08882 UPC 6 944155 210102 | AA USA Trading Inc. | AA USA Trading Inc. is recalling Dried Tai Sweet Mango Slice (NYSDAM FL: 378858) because the product contains undeclared FD&C Yellow #6 and Dried Kiwi Slice (NYSDAM FL: 378859) because this product contains undeclared FD&C Blue #1, FD&C Yellow #5. Undeclared sulfites were also in the product. | Class I |
All 3 records for AA USA Trading Inc.
All 2016 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.