Chocolate Covered Oreos

Windy Hill Chocolate LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 May 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared Allergens: Soy, Milk and Tree Nuts

The record

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Product

Chocolate Covered Oreos

Reason for recall

Undeclared Allergens: Soy, Milk and Tree Nuts

Recalling firm

Windy Hill Chocolate LLC

Firm location

Jacksonville, Florida, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0853-2023

Quantity

192 cello packs/2 units each and 40 units/3 cookies per unit (Oreo) -total

Distribution

Domestic consignee only.

Initiated

22 March 2023

Reported by FDA

17 May 2023

Terminated

31 July 2023

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Expiration Date 4/12/23

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 17 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 17 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 17. All 17 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 4 months, from 22 March 2023 to termination on 31 July 2023. 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a snack or confectionery product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Snacks and confectionery recall for allergens more than for anything else, because a chocolate or a coated snack passes through shared equipment carrying milk, soy and nuts, and the label is the only control between them and the consumer.

What this recall was for

The allergens named in this record: milk, soy, tree nuts.

Filed under snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 17 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 16 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.

Other snacks and confectionery 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 Windy Hill Chocolate LLC

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 16 other records name this firm.

All 17 records for Windy Hill Chocolate LLC

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