Product comes in as part of Fabulous Fudge Gift Box. The Gift box contains 2 samples of…
Tastefully Simple, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 December 2014 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Tastefully Simple is recalling various lots of Cookie & Cream Fudge(Fabulous Fudge Gift) because the product appears to have mold growing on the small chocolate cookie pieces on the top of the Cookies & Cream Fudge.
The record
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- Product
- Product comes in as part of Fabulous Fudge Gift Box. The Gift box contains 2 samples of the recalled product, Cookies & Cream Fudge and 2 samples of a second product not being recalled. The product comes in small plastic container with lid (3.5" x 2.5" x 21.875"). A small spoon is also present in the package. Gift Box Label: Fabulous Fudge, Tastefully Simple, Cookies & Cream Fudge, Creamy Chocolate Fudge, 4 - 2.5 oz cups newt WT 10 oz (280 g), Item #421129. Individual Package Label: tastefully simple, Cookies & Cream Fudge, Net WT 2.5 oz (70 g), Item #758604.
- Reason for recall
- Tastefully Simple is recalling various lots of Cookie & Cream Fudge(Fabulous Fudge Gift) because the product appears to have mold growing on the small chocolate cookie pieces on the top of the Cookies & Cream Fudge.
- Recalling firm
- Tastefully Simple, Inc
- Firm location
- Alexandria, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0713-2015
- Quantity
- 4,257 gift sets and 1,638 indivdual units for a total of 10,152 units.
- Distribution
- Nationwide.
- Initiated
- 18 November 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 24 December 2014
- Terminated
- 4 February 2015
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- Lot & (Best Buy Day): Lots: 3439 (02/09/15) , 3464 (02/09/15) , 3636 (02/09/15, 02/14/15, 02/15/15) , 3739 ( 02/14/15, 02/15/15, 04/13/15).
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 3 months, from 18 November 2014 to termination on 4 February 2015. 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 milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
What this recall was for
Spoilage and mould
A spoilage recall means the food degraded before its date: mould growth, unintended fermentation, swelling or rancidity, usually traced to a seal, a formulation or a storage temperature.
A preventive controls plan covers spoilage 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 117.93
- Warehousing and distribution: storage and transport under conditions that protect food against contamination and against deterioration of the food and its container.
- 21 CFR 117.80(b)(3)
- Time and temperature: holding food at temperatures that do not allow microorganisms to grow, and for no longer than the process allows.
Filed under milk and dairy, bakery and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 Tastefully Simple, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
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21 CFR 117.93 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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