Wegmans Milk Chocolate Covered Pretzels, NET WT 9.5 OZ (269g)
First Source, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 December 2016 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Milk Chocolate covered pretzels have incorrect rear label. The rear label is for the Dark Chocolate pretzels which lack allergen declaration.
The record
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Product
Wegmans Milk Chocolate Covered Pretzels, NET WT 9.5 OZ (269g)
Reason for recall
Milk Chocolate covered pretzels have incorrect rear label. The rear label is for the Dark Chocolate pretzels which lack allergen declaration.
MA, MD, NJ, NY, PA and VA thru Wegmans Retail stores
Initiated
11 November 2016
Reported by FDA
21 December 2016
Terminated
5 April 2017
Firm notified by
Telephone
Product codes
Best Before 06-06-17
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 5 months, from 11 November 2016 to termination on 5 April 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 5 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Undeclared Soy. The firm received complaints of sausage in the burritos. Upon review the firm discovered the sausage contains soy which is not listed on the label.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall 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.
