Dark Chocolate Fudge, brand Real Fudge. Product is sold in clear plastic deli container…
Real Fudge recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 December 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Dark Chocolate Fudge is recalled due to undeclared blue #1.
The record
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- Product
- Dark Chocolate Fudge, brand Real Fudge. Product is sold in clear plastic deli container in 8, 16, and 24 oz.
- Reason for recall
- Dark Chocolate Fudge is recalled due to undeclared blue #1.
- Recalling firm
- Real Fudge
- Firm location
- Mesa, Washington, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0758-2017
- Quantity
- 82/8 oz. units; 5/16 oz. units; and 2/24 oz.
- Distribution
- Distributed in Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington
- Initiated
- 11 December 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 28 December 2016
- Terminated
- 31 January 2017
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- no codes
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 9 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 9 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 9. All 9 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 7 weeks, from 11 December 2016 to termination on 31 January 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 FDA published the enforcement report 2 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a snack or confectionery product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
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.
Filed under snacks and confectionery and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 9 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 8 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.
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 Real Fudge
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 8 other records name this firm.
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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