Paleonola Grain Free Granola; Apple Pie; 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; Apple Pie; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 013964497106
- UPC
- 013964497106
- 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-0792-2020
- 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: 100620
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 fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.
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
Chemical contamination
A chemical contamination recall covers a substance that is harmful in food and was never meant to be there: a heavy metal, a cleaning chemical, a pesticide residue, or a natural toxin such as aflatoxin or histamine.
A preventive controls plan covers chemical contamination 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 117.35(b)
- Substances used in cleaning and sanitizing: toxic materials stored, identified and used so they cannot contaminate food, food-contact surfaces or packaging.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.130(b)(1)(ii)
- Hazard analysis: identifying the known or reasonably foreseeable chemical hazards, including radiological hazards, pesticide and drug residues, natural toxins and food decomposition.
Unapproved ingredients
An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.
A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient 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 111
- Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
- 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 fresh produce, bakery, snacks and confectionery and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other fresh produce 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-04 | Paleonola Grain Free Granola; Pumpkin Pie; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 013964497137 | Paleonola Llc | Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop. | Class III |
| 2020-03-04 | Paleonola Grain Free Granola; Maple Pancake; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 013964497120 | Paleonola Llc | Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop. | Class III |
| 2020-03-04 | Paleonola Grain Free Granola; Chocolate Fix; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 013964497113 | Paleonola Llc | Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop. | Class III |
| 2020-03-04 | Paleonola Grain Free Granola; The Original; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 013964497144 | Paleonola Llc | Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop. | Class III |
| 2020-03-04 | Paleonola Grain Free Granola; Pina Colada; packaged in 10oz stand-up pouches; UPC 091037367808 | Paleonola Llc | Potentially contaminated with an unapproved herbicide, haloxyfop. | Class III |
All 6 records for Paleonola Llc
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21 CFR 117.35(b) 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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