Valencia Almonds Fried and Salted, Matiz Product of Spain, packaged in clear plastic…
New Seasons Market LLC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 15 June 2022 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Undeclared peanut due to raw material contamination.
The record
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Product
Valencia Almonds Fried and Salted, Matiz Product of Spain, packaged in clear plastic container and sold with various net weight. The lid is labeled with a round orange label, and the container is labeled with the black and white New Seasons Market scale label with the PLU 207433 XXXXX. The orange label on the lid is read in parts: "***VALENCIA ALMONDS Fried and Salted***Matiz PRODUCT OF SPAIN *** Ingredients: Valencia almonds, high oleic sunflower oil, sea salt, vitamin E (a natural preservative), NO GMO. Imported by Matiz Espana wwww.culinarycollective.com Lynnwood, WA***". The black and white scale label is read in parts: "***NEW SEASONS MARKET VALENCIA ALMONDS SPAIN***Valencia almonds, sunflower oil, sea salt, vitamin E ***Contains: Tree Nuts (Almonds)***".
Reason for recall
Undeclared peanut due to raw material contamination.
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
The recall ran for 2 months, from 4 May 2022 to termination on 19 July 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6 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.
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
21 CFR 101.4
Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
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.
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.
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(2) 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.
