Munk Pack Keto Nut and Seed Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Bar, 35 g, individual unit
MUNK PACK INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 February 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may contain undeclared milk
The record
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- Product
- Munk Pack Keto Nut and Seed Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Bar, 35 g, individual unit
- Reason for recall
- Product may contain undeclared milk
- Recalling firm
- MUNK PACK INC
- Firm location
- Greenwich, Connecticut, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0590-2020
- Quantity
- N/A
- Distribution
- NY, FL
- Initiated
- 16 December 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 12 February 2020
- Terminated
- 29 July 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- NOV052020 and NOV062020 UPC: 853787005764
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 4 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 4 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 4. All 4 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 16 December 2019 to termination on 29 July 2020. 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 8 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: New York, Florida. 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: milk.
Filed under nuts and seeds, snacks and confectionery and spices and seasonings. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 4 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 3 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-12 | Munk Pack Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Nut & Seed Bar, 35 g, individual unit | MUNK PACK INC | Product may contain undeclared milk | Class II |
| 2020-02-12 | Munk Pack Almond Butter Cocoa Chip Keto Granola Bar, 4 pack, 128 g | MUNK PACK INC | Product may contain undeclared milk | Class II |
| 2020-02-12 | Munk Pack Coconut Cocoa Chip Keto Granola Bar, 4 pack, 128 g | MUNK PACK INC | Product may contain undeclared milk | Class II |
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 MUNK PACK INC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-12 | Munk Pack Peanut Butter Dark Chocolate Nut & Seed Bar, 35 g, individual unit | MUNK PACK INC | Product may contain undeclared milk | Class II |
| 2020-02-12 | Munk Pack Almond Butter Cocoa Chip Keto Granola Bar, 4 pack, 128 g | MUNK PACK INC | Product may contain undeclared milk | Class II |
| 2020-02-12 | Munk Pack Coconut Cocoa Chip Keto Granola Bar, 4 pack, 128 g | MUNK PACK INC | Product may contain undeclared milk | Class II |
| 2018-05-16 | Munk Pack PROTEIN COOKIE PEANUT BUTTER CHOCLATE CHIP NET WT 2.96oz (84g); UPC: 853787005351 | MUNK PACK INC | Mold growth on product. | Class II |
| 2018-05-16 | Munk Pack PROTEIN COOKIE DOUBLE DARK CHOCOLATE NET WT 2.96oz (84g); UPC: 853787005368 | MUNK PACK INC | Mold growth on product. | Class II |
All 6 records for MUNK PACK INC
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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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