Sour Patch Kids, 1.9 lb bag
Mondelez Global Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 4 April 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Mondelez Global LLC is initiating a recall because remnants of a half peanut shell were found in two containers of bulk candy from a single lot during the repacking process and the candy is not labeled as containing peanuts. Mondelez Global LLC after an investigation, including inspection of product within in their control from the same lot did not find any other evidence of peanut contamination. The firm believes this is most likely to be an isolated incident and that product on the market is unlikely to contain any peanut pieces and the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences to peanut allergic consumers. No adverse health events have been reported. Never the less, out of an abundance of caution, we have determined to conduct a voluntary recall to the retail level.
The record
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- Product
- Sour Patch Kids, 1.9 lb bag
- Reason for recall
- Mondelez Global LLC is initiating a recall because remnants of a half peanut shell were found in two containers of bulk candy from a single lot during the repacking process and the candy is not labeled as containing peanuts. Mondelez Global LLC after an investigation, including inspection of product within in their control from the same lot did not find any other evidence of peanut contamination. The firm believes this is most likely to be an isolated incident and that product on the market is unlikely to contain any peanut pieces and the product is not likely to cause adverse health consequences to peanut allergic consumers. No adverse health events have been reported. Never the less, out of an abundance of caution, we have determined to conduct a voluntary recall to the retail level.
- Recalling firm
- Mondelez Global Llc
- Firm location
- East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0952-2018
- Quantity
- 1814 Cases
- Distribution
- The product has been distributed to the following States: AZ, CA, CT, GA, IL, KY, ME, NC, NJ, NY, Ok, PA, VA
- Initiated
- 13 March 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 4 April 2018
- Terminated
- 17 August 2021
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Retail UPC; Number of Retail Units 0 70462 43309 8; / 1 Retail Unit Case UPC; Units Per Case 0 00 70462 00043 6; / 4 Units per Case
Reading this record
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- 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 3.4 years, from 13 March 2018 to termination on 17 August 2021. 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 12 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 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: California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
Other records from Mondelez Global Llc
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