Pure Apricot Pecan Flats, 10 units/case, 6oz. UPC 8 73376 00303.
Unified Grocers Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 December 2012 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Unified Grocers is recalling Pure Apricot Pecan Flats because it may contain undeclared sulfites.
The record
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- Product
- Pure Apricot Pecan Flats, 10 units/case, 6oz. UPC 8 73376 00303.
- UPC
- 87337600303
- Reason for recall
- Unified Grocers is recalling Pure Apricot Pecan Flats because it may contain undeclared sulfites.
- Recalling firm
- Unified Grocers Inc.
- Firm location
- City Of Commerce, California, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0806-2013
- Quantity
- 2120 units
- Distribution
- Nationwide in the US: CA, AK, WA, and OR.
- Initiated
- 30 November 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 19 December 2012
- Terminated
- 22 March 2013
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- All lot 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 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 4 months, from 30 November 2012 to termination on 22 March 2013. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.
Named in the distribution pattern: Alaska, Washington, Oregon. 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: tree nuts, sulfites.
Filed under nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.
Other nuts and seeds 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 Unified Grocers Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014-03-05 | Ginger Snap Cookies, 12 oz., Item Code: 48918, UPC 0-41380-23359 | Unified Grocers Inc. | Unified Grocers is recalling special value ginger snap cookies because it was mislabeled and it contains undeclared egg. | Class I |
| 2013-02-06 | Kinnikinnick Foods Pie Crusts, 10.2 oz, Item code: 21-35265, UPC 6-20133-00600. | Unified Grocers Inc. | Unified Grocers is recalling Kinnikinnick Pie Crust because it contains undeclared egg allergen. | Class I |
All 3 records for Unified Grocers Inc.
All 2012 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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