Heartland, AMERICA'S ORIGINAL, Fruit & Nut Harvest Granola Cereal, NET WT 14 OZ.

Blue Planet Foods, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 March 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Blue Planet products that contain the two recalled Dakota Specialty Milling ingredients; distribution of recalled bulk, wholesale, and cereal items.

The record

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Product

Heartland, AMERICA'S ORIGINAL, Fruit & Nut Harvest Granola Cereal, NET WT 14 OZ. (397g), UPC 024300090387

UPC

024300090387

Reason for recall

Blue Planet products that contain the two recalled Dakota Specialty Milling ingredients; distribution of recalled bulk, wholesale, and cereal items.

Recalling firm

Blue Planet Foods, Inc.

Firm location

Collegedale, Tennessee, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1202-2013

Quantity

9573 cases of 6 units

Distribution

Nationwide, Costa Rica, Trinidad, and Bermuda

Initiated

19 February 2013

Reported by FDA

27 March 2013

Terminated

23 August 2013

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

Best if used by dates: 20130325 (March 25, 2013) - 20130910 (September 10, 2013)

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 7 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 7 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 7. 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 7 of them.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 19 February 2013 to termination on 23 August 2013. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.

Filed under nuts and seeds, snacks and confectionery and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.

Other nuts and seeds recalls

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.

Other records from Blue Planet Foods, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.

All 7 records for Blue Planet Foods, Inc.

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