Simply Nature Organic Red Split Lentils, 16 oz bag, UPC 041498299507
Aldi Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 13 May 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product may contain undeclared wheat
The record
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- Product
- Simply Nature Organic Red Split Lentils, 16 oz bag, UPC 041498299507
- UPC
- 041498299507
- Reason for recall
- Product may contain undeclared wheat
- Recalling firm
- Aldi Inc
- Firm location
- Batavia, Illinois, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0932-2020
- Quantity
- 73,920 retail units (total)
- Distribution
- Aldi stores nationwide
- Initiated
- 28 October 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 13 May 2020
- Terminated
- 1 May 2020
- Firm notified by
- Other
- Product codes
- All Best By dates
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. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 3.5 years, from 28 October 2016 to termination on 1 May 2020. 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 3.5 years 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.
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.
The allergens named in this record: wheat.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-13 | Simply Nature Organic Green Lentils, 16 oz bag, UPC 041498299514 | Aldi Inc | Product may contain undeclared wheat | Class II |
Other records from Aldi Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-13 | Simply Nature Organic Green Lentils, 16 oz bag, UPC 041498299514 | Aldi Inc | Product may contain undeclared wheat | Class II |
| 2018-11-14 | Millville Maple & Brown Sugar Instant Oatmeal 15.1 oz. 10 individual serving size packets per 15.1oz retail unit. UPC: 041498 149628 | Aldi Inc | Complaints of insects in product | Class II |
| 2018-08-15 | AnnaSea Wasabi Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits | Aldi Inc | ALDI has voluntarily recalled AnnaSea Wasabi Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits and Limu Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits due to storing the products at temperatures above freezing prior to consumption which can render the products unsafe for consumption. | Class II |
| 2018-08-15 | AnnaSea Limu Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits | Aldi Inc | ALDI has voluntarily recalled AnnaSea Wasabi Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits and Limu Ahi Poke Hawaiian Poke Kits due to storing the products at temperatures above freezing prior to consumption which can render the products unsafe for consumption. | Class II |
| 2017-12-27 | Choceur Dark Chocolate Bars, 5.29 oz., 20 units/case | Aldi Inc | ALDI has voluntarily recalled Choceur Dark Chocolate Bars due to the potential presence of almond pieces, which are an undeclared treenut allergen. | Class I |
| 2012-07-11 | Northern Catch Harvest of the Sea Fancy Whole Oysters and SeaNet Fancy Whole Oysters; Net Wt. 8 oz (227g) cans, 12 cans per carton; Distributed by Aldi Inc., Batavia, IL 60510-1477; Product of Korea; UPC 0 41498 11984 3 | Aldi Inc | The product has been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby it may have become contaminated with filth, or whereby it may have been rendered injurious to health. | Class III |
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