Dove Chocolate Assortment Snowflakes Net. Wt. 24.0 oz. Distributed by Mars Chocolate na…
Mars Chocolate North America recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 10 February 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Dove Chocolate Assortment Snowflakes may contain undeclared peanuts, what and egg ingredients.
The record
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- Product
- Dove Chocolate Assortment Snowflakes Net. Wt. 24.0 oz. Distributed by Mars Chocolate na, llc Hackettstown, NJ 07840-1503 USA UPC 400050521
- Reason for recall
- Dove Chocolate Assortment Snowflakes may contain undeclared peanuts, what and egg ingredients.
- Recalling firm
- Mars Chocolate North America
- Firm location
- Hackettstown, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0532-2016
- Quantity
- 6582 cases
- Distribution
- AZ, GA, MA, MS, OH, VA, CA, IA, MD, NH, OK, VT, CO, IL, ME, NJ, OR, WA, CT, IN, MI, NM, PA, WI, DE, KS, MN, NV, RI, WY, FL, KY, MO, NY and TX.
- Initiated
- 17 December 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 10 February 2016
- Terminated
- 5 September 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Code and Best Before Dates include: 537CG4PA30: Best Before 9/2016 537DG4PA30: Best Before 9/2016 538AG4PA30: Best Before 9/2016 538AM4PA30: Best Before 9/2016 541AG4PA20: Best Before 10/2016 542EM4PA20: Best Before 10/2016
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 21 months, from 17 December 2015 to termination on 5 September 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 35 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a snack or confectionery product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Snacks and confectionery recall for allergens more than for anything else, because a chocolate or a coated snack passes through shared equipment carrying milk, soy and nuts, and the label is the only control between them and the consumer.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, Georgia, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Ohio, Virginia, California, Iowa, Maryland, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Vermont, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, Connecticut, Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Delaware, Kansas, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Texas. 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: peanuts, eggs.
Filed under snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other snacks and confectionery 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 Mars Chocolate North America
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 18 other records name this firm.
All 19 records for Mars Chocolate North America
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.
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