Black Cherry Chocolate Creme Chocolate covered protein bars, packaged in metalized…
BUILT BRANDS LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 August 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products may be moldy prior to the end of the stated shelf life.
The record
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Product
Black Cherry Chocolate Creme Chocolate covered protein bars, packaged in metalized polypropylene wrappers, packed in 6 count to 18 count boxes, net wt. ranges from 53 to 58 grams.
Reason for recall
Products may be moldy prior to the end of the stated shelf life.
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
2003128, date 20031, Expiration 9/30/2020; 2004428, date 20044, Expiration 10/13/2020; 2005628, date 20056, Expiration 10/25/2020
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 9 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 9 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 9. All 9 of them are listed on this page.
The recall ran for 20 months, from 24 June 2020 to termination on 9 March 2022. 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 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a snack or confectionery product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.
The FDA opened 9 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 8 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.
Products may be moldy prior to the end of the stated shelf life.
Class II
Other snacks and confectionery 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.
The firm discovered that certain units shipped to the U.S. retail stores only has "foreign languages" on the label. Product has undeclared wheat, soy, milk, eggs and tree nut (coconut).
Behind every recall is a clause somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
