SunGlow, European Style Butter Blend Margarine, packaged in the following…
Ventura Foods Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 February 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. SunGlow contains undeclared soy lecithin.
The record
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- Product
- SunGlow, European Style Butter Blend Margarine, packaged in the following configurations: 1. 16842 SNG, Net Wt 16 oz (1 lb) 454 g. Keep Refrigerated. UPC 26700-13410. Outer case: Net Wt 36 lb (16.32 kg). UPC 1 00 26700 13410 1 Ventura Foods, Brea, CA 92821 2. 16836 SNG, 5 grams, Keep Refrigerated. Outer Case: Net Wt 7.9 lb (3.6kg), UPC 1 00 26700 13405 7 Ventura Foods, Brea, CA 92831
- UPC
- 2670013410
- Reason for recall
- SunGlow contains undeclared soy lecithin.
- Recalling firm
- Ventura Foods Llc
- Firm location
- Brea, California, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0795-2018
- Quantity
- 44,439 cases 16842 SNG and 27,160 cases 16836 SNG
- Distribution
- AK, AL, AR, CO, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY,LA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO,MS, MT, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, SD, TX, VT, WA, WI
- Initiated
- 4 January 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 14 February 2018
- Terminated
- 5 July 2019
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- 16842 SNG Lot Codes: MAPR0318 and 04.03.18, MAPR0918 and 04.09.18, MAPR1018 and 04.10.18, MAPR1618 and 04.16.18, MAPR1818 and 04.18.18, MAPR2318 and 04.23.18, MAPR2418 and 04.24.18, MAPR3018 and 04.30.18, MFEB1418 and 02.14.18, MFEB1518 and 02.15.18, MFEB1818 and 02.18.18, MFEB2718 and 02.26.18, MFEB2818 and 02.28.18, MJUN0518 and 06.05.18, MJUN0618 and 06.06.18, MJUN1118 and 06.11.18, MJUN1218 and 06.12.18, MJUN1818 and 06.18.18, MJUN1918 and 06.19.18, MMAR0618 and 03.06.18, MMAR1218 and 03.12.18, MMAR1918 and 03.19.18, MMAR2118 and 03.21.18, MMAR2218 and 03.22.18, MMAR2618 and 03.26.18, MMAR2718 and 03.27.18, MMAY0218 and 05.02.18, MMAY0718 and 05.07.18, MMAY0918 and 05.09.18, MMAY1018 and 05.10.18, MMAY1418 and 05.14.18, MMAY1518 and 05.15.18, MMAY2118 and 05.21.18, MMAY2918 and 05.29.18, MMAY3018 and 05.30.18 16836 SNG Lot Codes: M27817, M28517, M29317, M24417, M35417, M35517, M19517, M20117, M20917, M21517, M22217, M22317, M23017, M23717, M25117, M25717, M26517, M26617, M27117, M27217, M27917, M28617, M29217, M30717, M30817, M31417, M32117, M32217, M33517, M33617, M27017, M31917, M32017
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 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 18 months, from 4 January 2018 to termination on 5 July 2019. 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 36 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 longer 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: Alaska, Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. 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
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.
The allergens named in this record: soy.
Filed under milk and dairy. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-02-14 | SunGlow, Unsalted European Style Butter Blend Margarine (16953 SNG), Net Wt 16 oz (1 lb) 454 g. Keep Refrigerated. UPC 26700-13499. Outer case: Net Wt 36 lb (16.32 kg). UPC 1 00 26700 13499 6. Ventura Foods, Brea, CA 92821 | Ventura Foods Llc | SunGlow contains undeclared soy lecithin. | Class II |
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 Ventura Foods Llc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 25 other records name this firm.
All 26 records for Ventura Foods, LLC
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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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