EXO Cricket Protein Bar Peanut Butter and Jelly; Net Wt 2.1 Oz. packaged in a film…

Aspire Food Group USA Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 25 April 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Products contain undeclared sulfites

The record

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Product

EXO Cricket Protein Bar Peanut Butter and Jelly; Net Wt 2.1 Oz. packaged in a film wrapper, 12 units per case; UPC: 861703000014

UPC

861703000014

Reason for recall

Products contain undeclared sulfites

Recalling firm

Aspire Food Group USA Inc.

Firm location

Austin, Texas, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1112-2018

Quantity

27,128 units

Distribution

United States and Germany

Initiated

16 March 2018

Reported by FDA

25 April 2018

Terminated

13 September 2018

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

27DEC2018 and 09Apr2018

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class I means the FDA judged a reasonable probability that the product would cause serious health consequences or death. 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 3 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 3 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 3. All 3 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 16 March 2018 to termination on 13 September 2018. 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 milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.

What this recall was for

The allergens named in this record: sulfites.

Filed under milk and dairy, nuts and seeds, snacks and confectionery and sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 3 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 2 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.

Other milk and dairy 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 Aspire Food Group USA Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.

All 3 records for Aspire Food Group USA Inc.

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