Pumpkin pie spice, 4 lb plastic gallon, product number 67644; Pumpkin pie spice, 1 lb…
PIAZZA PRODUCE, INC. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 18 January 2017 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product labeling does not contain a listing of ingredients.
The record
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Product
Pumpkin pie spice, 4 lb plastic gallon, product number 67644; Pumpkin pie spice, 1 lb plastic jar, product number 67642
Reason for recall
Product labeling does not contain a listing of ingredients.
Food service establishments in IL, IN, KY, MI, OH No international
Initiated
7 August 2015
Reported by FDA
18 January 2017
Terminated
21 March 2017
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
All lots manufactured / distributed since 2011
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 24 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 24 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 24. 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 24 of them.
The recall ran for 19 months, from 7 August 2015 to termination on 21 March 2017. 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 3 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 17 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.
Named in the distribution pattern: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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).
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).
Undeclared Soy. The firm received complaints of sausage in the burritos. Upon review the firm discovered the sausage contains soy which is not listed on the label.
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.
