Class ITerminated · reported 2012-12-26

Dried Apricots 6 oz UPC 7203670494

Whole Alternatives Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 December 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared sulphur dioxide

The record

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Product: Dried Apricots 6 oz UPC 7203670494
UPC: 7203670494
Reason for recall: Undeclared sulphur dioxide
Recalling firm: Whole Alternatives Llc
Firm location: Louisville, Kentucky, United States
Classification: Class I
Status: Terminated
Recall number: F-0830-2013
Quantity: 15,900 (6oz) units
Distribution: Harris Teeter Distribution centers then to 210 stores over NC, SC, VA, FL, GA,TN, MD, DE, and District of Columbia
Initiated: 16 November 2012
Reported by FDA: 26 December 2012
Terminated: 18 June 2013
Firm notified by: Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes: All Lots 128522L 5/10/13 177532L 6/29/13 191522L 7/9/13 226562L 8/16/13 254512L 9/11/13 296532L 10/23/13

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. 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 7 months, from 16 November 2012 to termination on 18 June 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 7 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 6 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: South Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Delaware. 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.

Other records from Whole Alternatives Llc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

Reported	Product	Firm	Reason	Class
2018-03-14	Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds 9 oz clam shell & 25 lb box Ingredients: Dark Chocolate (Sugar, chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate Liquor Processed with Alkali, Soy Lecithin (Emulsifier), Salt, Vanilla, Almonds and Confectioners Glaze. Sold under the brand names and Distributed by: Sage Valley St. Augustine, FL 32085-9000 (800) 223-2910 & Tree of Life, LLC, A KeHE Company St. Augustine, FL 32085-9000	WHOLE ALTERNATIVES LLC	The firm was notified by their supplier that they failed to declare milk on the label. Therefore when they repacked the product they did not include milk on their label.	Class II
2012-12-26	Dried Golden Raisins 8 oz UPC 7203670490	Whole Alternatives Llc	Undeclared sulphur dioxide	Class I

All 3 records for Whole Alternatives 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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