Paleonola Grain Free Granola; The Original; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC…

Paleonola Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 March 2020 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop.

The record

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Product

Paleonola Grain Free Granola; The Original; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 013964497144

UPC

013964497144

Reason for recall

Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop.

Recalling firm

Paleonola Llc

Firm location

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0788-2020

Quantity

7,388 Cases Total

Distribution

NJ, NH, MA, FL, RI

Initiated

18 February 2020

Reported by FDA

4 March 2020

Terminated

4 May 2020

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Best By dates: 091720, 092420, 092920, 093020, 100520, 100720, 100820, 101220, 101620

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 is one of 6 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 6 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 6. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 6 of them.
• The recall ran for 2 months, from 18 February 2020 to termination on 4 May 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 5 states, and 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Florida, Rhode Island. 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

Filed under snacks and confectionery and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

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 Paleonola Llc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 5 other records name this firm.

All 6 records for Paleonola Llc

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