All-Natural Ciolo Nut-Free Basil Pesto, 7 oz., plastic container, Item #: 30019.18
Blue Moose of Boulder, LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 21 March 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm is recalling Nut-Free Basil Pesto due to mislabeling, causing undeclared tree nuts.
The record
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- Product
- All-Natural Ciolo Nut-Free Basil Pesto, 7 oz., plastic container, Item #: 30019.18
- Reason for recall
- Firm is recalling Nut-Free Basil Pesto due to mislabeling, causing undeclared tree nuts.
- Recalling firm
- Blue Moose of Boulder, LLC
- Firm location
- Lafayette, Colorado, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0934-2018
- Quantity
- 504 units
- Distribution
- Colorado, Utah, Kansas. No foreign/VA/govt/military consignees.
- Initiated
- 28 February 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 21 March 2018
- Terminated
- 29 June 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot# BV431291
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 28 February 2018 to termination on 29 June 2018. 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 shorter 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.
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: tree nuts.
Filed under nuts and seeds and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Blue Moose of Boulder, LLC
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-06-22 | Blue Moose Spinach Artichoke Parmesan Dip, 7 oz. (198g), packed in a square, clear plastic container, six units in a pack, UPC 8 47847 00467 5, Blue Moose of Boulder, LLC, 1733 Majestic Dr., Lafayette, CO 80026. Store under refrigeration 33 - 41 degrees F. | Blue Moose of Boulder, LLC | Spinach Artichoke Cashew Dip was mislabeled with Spinach Artichoke Parmesan Dip label and does not state that the product contains cashews and soy. | Class I |
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