Case UPC: 144000031944 Carton: Nabisco belVita Chocolate Variety Net Wt.
Mondelez Global Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 March 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. belVita breakfast biscuit may contain fragments of flexible metal mesh caused by a faulty screen at a third-party flour supplier.
The record
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- Product
- Case UPC: 144000031944 Carton: Nabisco belVita Chocolate Variety Net Wt. 8.8 oz UPC 0 44000 03194 7 Distributed by Kraft Foods Global, Inc. Northfield, IL 60093-2753 USA Inner Pouch: Nabisco belVita Chocolate Variety Net Wt. 1.76 oz UPC 0 44000 03192 3 Distributed by Kraft Foods Global, Inc. Northfield, IL 60093-2753 USA 14.08 oz Please note there are mixed shippers, shipper labels are not available: Mixed belVita Shipper UPC 0044000032784 which contains a 14.08 oz 2 pc product- waiting for label for this size. 9618 cases distributed.
- UPC
- 144000031944
- Reason for recall
- belVita breakfast biscuit may contain fragments of flexible metal mesh caused by a faulty screen at a third-party flour supplier.
- Recalling firm
- Mondelez Global Llc
- Firm location
- East Hanover, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1068-2013
- Quantity
- 460,917 cases (6 boxes in each case with 5 pouches that contain 4 cookies)
- Distribution
- Nationwide and Puerto Rico
- Initiated
- 21 February 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 20 March 2013
- Terminated
- 15 September 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- 21 Jan 13 through 29 Sep 13
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 19 months, from 21 February 2013 to termination on 15 September 2014. 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 4 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.
What this recall was for
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-03-20 | Carton: Nabisco belVita Apple Cinnamon Net Wt. 8.8 oz UPC 0 44000 02824 1 Distributed by Kraft Foods Global, Inc. Northfield, IL 60093-2753 USA Inner Pouch: Nabisco belVita Apple Cinnamon Net Wt. 1.76 oz UPC 0 44000 02825 1 Distributed by Kraft Foods Global, Inc. Northfield, IL 60093-2753 USA Shipper: Mixed "Better For You" Shipper UPC 00044000034023 which also contains product not subject to the recall 590 cases distributed | Mondelez Global Llc | Mondelez Global LLC is conducting a voluntary recall of belVita Breakfast Biscuit Apple Cinnamon and Chocolate Varieties due to the possible presence of fragments of flexible metal mesh caused by a faulty screen at third party flour supplier. | Class II |
Other snacks and confectionery 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 Mondelez Global Llc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 36 other records name this firm.
All 37 records for Mondelez Global Llc
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21 CFR 117.40 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one 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.
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