New Seasons Market Truffle Valencia Almonds, packaged in a round plastic tub with lid…
New Seasons Market LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 May 2022 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential foreign materials contamination.
The record
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Product
New Seasons Market Truffle Valencia Almonds, packaged in a round plastic tub with lid, sold by various weights. Packaged is labeled with a black and white scale label, UPC 207456 308081
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Product codes
Best if used by Jun 11, 22 to Jun 28, 22.
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 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 29 April 2022 to termination on 17 August 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 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.
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 nuts and seeds. 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.
Undeclared Soy. BBQ sauce was inadvertently used instead of Marinara sauce and BBQ sauce contains soy. The Vegetarian Lasagna finished product label does not declare soy.
Honey Cake's sticker on the top of a package states "buttermilk and sour cream" but milk is not declared. The bottom scale label has the Contains statement but "MILK" is not declared.
Cauliflower Pilaf meal kit is recalled because the Almonds container, packaged in a separate clear containers inside the kit, was mislabeled with a sticker that declares peanut.
Mini Chocolate Croissants are recalled because the Ingredients statement and Contains statement do not declare EGG. In addition, Mini Chocolate Croissants are recalled because the Contains statement does not declare SOY LECITHIN.
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.
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.
