Top Label: TRADER JOE'S GENOVA PESTO NET WT. 7 OZ. (198g) Side Label: TRADER JOE'S…

Bakkavor Foods USA Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 24 May 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was notified that the product top label reads "Pesto" and the side label reads "Hummus". The Hummus ingredient panel does not include milk and walnuts which are ingredients of the Pesto in the container.

The record

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Product

Top Label: TRADER JOE'S GENOVA PESTO NET WT. 7 OZ. (198g) Side Label: TRADER JOE'S HUMMUS DIP NET WT. 7 OZ (98g) CONTAINS: SESAME. DIST. & SOLD EXCLUSIVELY BY: TRADER JOE'S, MONROVIA, CA 91016 UPC 0015 7353

Reason for recall

The firm was notified that the product top label reads "Pesto" and the side label reads "Hummus". The Hummus ingredient panel does not include milk and walnuts which are ingredients of the Pesto in the container.

Recalling firm

Bakkavor Foods USA Inc.

Firm location

Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0894-2023

Quantity

290cs/24/7 oz cups

Distribution

Product was shipped to the following states: AZ, CA, FL & WA.

Initiated

1 May 2023

Reported by FDA

24 May 2023

Terminated

1 February 2024

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

BEST BY 5/27/2023 Time stamp between 06:28 - 07:07 Top label: SKU 15739 Side label: SKU 15735

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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 1 May 2023 to termination on 1 February 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 distribution pattern names 1 state, 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 longer 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.

Filed under nuts and seeds, sauces, dips and condiments and prepared meals and sandwiches. A product can sit in more than one.

Other nuts and seeds recalls

These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. 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 Bakkavor Foods USA Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.

All 10 records for Bakkavor Foods USA Inc.

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