Hannaford Triple Chocolate Cake Truffle, 6 count UPC # 20335700000
Hannaford Bros. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 November 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product labels fails to declare allergens: egg, milk, peanuts, wheat, soy and tree nuts
The record
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- Product
- Hannaford Triple Chocolate Cake Truffle, 6 count UPC # 20335700000
- UPC
- 20335700000
- Reason for recall
- Product labels fails to declare allergens: egg, milk, peanuts, wheat, soy and tree nuts
- Recalling firm
- Hannaford Bros.
- Firm location
- Scarborough, Maine, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0622-2013
- Quantity
- N/A
- Distribution
- New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Vermont
- Initiated
- 11 October 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 14 November 2012
- Terminated
- 6 November 2012
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- All sell by dates
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. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 4 weeks, from 11 October 2012 to termination on 6 November 2012. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
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, soy, wheat, peanuts, tree nuts, eggs.
Filed under bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-14 | Hannaford Red Velvet Cake Truffle, 6 count UPC #20335800000 | Hannaford Bros. | Product labels fails to declare allergens: egg, milk, peanuts, wheat, soy and tree nuts | Class I |
Other bakery 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 Hannaford Bros.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-11-14 | Hannaford Red Velvet Cake Truffle, 6 count UPC #20335800000 | Hannaford Bros. | Product labels fails to declare allergens: egg, milk, peanuts, wheat, soy and tree nuts | Class I |
| 2012-08-22 | Hannaford Meatball Panini - cold, UPC # 941260723096 Hannaford Meatball Panini - hot, UPC # 94126072102 Packaged in 10 oz plastic clamshell | Hannaford Bros. | Panini's were made in-store utilizing meatballs as an ingredient recalled for potential Listeria monocytogenes by the Manufacturer Buona Vita Inc. 1 S. Industrial BLVD Bridgeton, NJ 08302 | Class I |
| 2012-07-11 | Hannaford brand Mini Frosted Cookies, 10 oz UPC # 4126872374 | Hannaford Bros. | Undeclared egg | Class I |
All 4 records for Hannaford Bros.
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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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