bulk chocolate caramels
Bauer's Candies, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 April 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Risk of Hepatitis A exposure.
The record
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- Product
- bulk chocolate caramels
- Reason for recall
- Risk of Hepatitis A exposure.
- Recalling firm
- Bauer's Candies, Inc.
- Firm location
- Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1199-2019
- Quantity
- 1 bulk case
- Distribution
- Distributed to retail locations in KY & IL. Distributed to private individuals in AL, AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, IL, IN, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, RI, TN, TX, VA, WA, WY via individual orders and QVC orders. One private individual in Iceland.
- Initiated
- 4 December 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 3 April 2019
- Terminated
- 7 May 2019
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- No codes
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 14 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 14 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 14. 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 14 of them.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 4 December 2018 to termination on 7 May 2019. 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 24 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a snack or confectionery product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
Viral and parasitic contamination
Hepatitis A, norovirus and Cyclospora recalls trace back to a person or to water rather than to the process: an infected food handler, or produce irrigated or washed with contaminated water.
A preventive controls plan covers viral or parasitic contamination 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 117.10
- Personnel: the hygiene practices, and the exclusion of anyone with an illness or open lesion that could contaminate food, that a facility must require.
- 21 CFR 112
- Produce safety: the agricultural water, worker health and hygiene standards for farms growing produce eaten raw.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Filed under snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Garden, 12 oz, UPC 4099100082975, Iceberg lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Asian Chopped Salad Kit 12 oz., UPC 4099100086966, Green & red cabbage, green leaf lettuce, carrots & green onions | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Chef Salad 6.2 oz., UPC 4099100107364, Iceberg lettuce | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Classic Coleslaw 14 oz., UPC 041498302177, Green cabbage & carrots | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Southwest Chopped Salad Kit 12 oz., UPC 4099100087024, Green and red cabbage, green leaf lettuce, carrots & green onion | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Garden Salad 12 oz.,UPC 4099100082975, Iceberg lettuce, carrots & red cabbage | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2020-07-22 | Little Salad Bar Sunflower Chopped Salad Kit 11.1 oz., UPC 4099100087901, Green and red cabbage, green leaf lettuce & carrots | Fresh Express Incorporated | Ready to Eat salad products containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and/or carrot ingredients are recalled due to a possible health risk from Cyclospora. | Class II |
| 2019-04-03 | bulk chocolate bourbon caramels | Bauer's Candies, Inc. | Risk of Hepatitis A exposure. | Class II |
Other records from Bauer's Candies, Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 13 other records name this firm.
All 14 records for Bauer's Candies, Inc.
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21 CFR 117.10 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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