Food products purchased from Family Dollar retail stores located in Alabama, Arkansas…
Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 March 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential exposure to rodents and rodent activity in the distribution center.
The record
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- Product
- Food products purchased from Family Dollar retail stores located in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee
- Reason for recall
- Potential exposure to rodents and rodent activity in the distribution center.
- Recalling firm
- Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc.
- Firm location
- Chesapeake, Virginia, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0810-2022
- Quantity
- Unknown
- Distribution
- Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee
- Initiated
- 18 February 2022
- Reported by FDA
- 9 March 2022
- Terminated
- 17 July 2024
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- All food products purchased from Family Dollar retail stores located in AL, AR, LA, MS, MO, and TN from January 1, 2021 to present
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. 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 2 of them.
- The recall ran for 2.4 years, from 18 February 2022 to termination on 17 July 2024. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
Other records from Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-09 | Dietary supplements purchased from Family Dollar retail stores located in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, including but not limited to vitamins, herbal and mineral supplements | Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc. | Potential exposure to rodents and rodent activity in the distribution center. | Class II |
| 2013-01-23 | Candy Canes, Cherry Flavor, 5 oz boxes, packed 12 candy canes/box, and labeled in part ***Distributed by Greenbriar International, Inc., Chesapeake, VA 23320, MADE IN CHINA*** | Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc. | Candy product may contain metal and/or plastic pieces embedded in the candy. | Class II |
| 2013-01-23 | Candy Canes, Peppermint Flavor, 5 oz boxes, packed 12 individually candy canes/box, and labeled in part ***Distributed by Greenbriar International, Inc., Chesapeake, VA 23320, MADE IN CHINA*** | Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc. | Candy product may contain metal and/or plastic pieces embedded in the candy. | Class II |
All 4 records for Dollar Tree Distribution, Inc.
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