Longhorn Bar Roasted Peanut with Chocolate (1.23 oz), 144 units per case.
Lin-Mar Partners Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 December 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. LIN-MAR PARTNERS, INC of Austin, Texas recalled two varieties of Longhorn Bars: Roasted Peanut with Chocolate Energy Bars and Peanut Butter Trail Mix Protein Bars, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy person
The record
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- Product
- Longhorn Bar Roasted Peanut with Chocolate (1.23 oz), 144 units per case. The bars are in packaging labeled as Longhorn Bars and have a picture of roasted peanuts and chocolate.
- Reason for recall
- LIN-MAR PARTNERS, INC of Austin, Texas recalled two varieties of Longhorn Bars: Roasted Peanut with Chocolate Energy Bars and Peanut Butter Trail Mix Protein Bars, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy person
- Recalling firm
- Lin-Mar Partners Inc
- Firm location
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0818-2013
- Quantity
- 30,853 bars of the Roasted Peanut with Chocolate
- Distribution
- TX only
- Initiated
- 11 October 2012
- Reported by FDA
- 19 December 2012
- Terminated
- 19 March 2013
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- The UPC code for the Roasted Peanut Energy Bar is 8-57087-00301-7 and best by date of 11/10/12. The lot Number is 111012. These codes are printed on the back of the products.
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 5 months, from 11 October 2012 to termination on 19 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 FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.
What this recall was for
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella 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 117.135(c)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-19 | Longhorn Bar Peanut Butter Trail Mix (1.80 oz), 144 units per case. The bars are in packaging labeled as Longhorn Bars and have a picture of roasted peanuts and trail mix. | Lin-Mar Partners Inc | LIN-MAR PARTNERS, INC of Austin, Texas recalled two varieties of Longhorn Bars: Roasted Peanut with Chocolate Energy Bars and Peanut Butter Trail Mix Protein Bars, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy person | Class I |
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 Lin-Mar Partners Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012-12-19 | Longhorn Bar Peanut Butter Trail Mix (1.80 oz), 144 units per case. The bars are in packaging labeled as Longhorn Bars and have a picture of roasted peanuts and trail mix. | Lin-Mar Partners Inc | LIN-MAR PARTNERS, INC of Austin, Texas recalled two varieties of Longhorn Bars: Roasted Peanut with Chocolate Energy Bars and Peanut Butter Trail Mix Protein Bars, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy person | Class I |
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