Toffee Almond Chocolate covered protein bars, packaged in metalized polypropylene…

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

Every field below is published by the FDA in the openFDA food enforcement database. Check the FDA notice before acting on any recall: this page is a reading of the public record, not a substitute for it.

Product

Toffee Almond 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.

Recalling firm

BUILT BRANDS LLC

Firm location

American Fork, Utah, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1042-2020

Quantity

169,670 bars

Distribution

Nationwide in U.S. and Canada.

Initiated

24 June 2020

Reported by FDA

5 August 2020

Terminated

9 March 2022

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

2003004, date 20030, Expiration 9/30/2020; 2005204, date 20052, Expiration 10/21/2020

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. Every product code in this event is listed together on the record that covers the whole recall, which is the page a search engine is pointed to for all 9 of them.
• 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 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 and snacks and confectionery. 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 BUILT BRANDS LLC

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 BUILT BRANDS LLC

All 2020 recalls · All FDA food recall data