Whole Natural Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag; Whole Blanched Almonds packaged in 5…

Houston Pecan Company, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 August 2023 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Potential to contain undeclared tree nuts, peanuts and wheat due to allergen cross contamination.

The record

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Product

Whole Natural Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag; Whole Blanched Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag; Sliced Blanched Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag; Sliced Natural Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag; Almond Flour packaged in 5 pound bag; Smoked Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag; Slivered Almonds packaged in 5 pound bag

Reason for recall

Potential to contain undeclared tree nuts, peanuts and wheat due to allergen cross contamination.

Recalling firm

Houston Pecan Company, Inc

Firm location

Houston, Texas, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1314-2023

Quantity

Unknown

Distribution

Texas and internet sales

Initiated

1 June 2023

Reported by FDA

9 August 2023

Terminated

26 February 2025

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

all 5 pound bags of product purchased prior to 5/25/23

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 31 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 31 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 31. All 31 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 21 months, from 1 June 2023 to termination on 26 February 2025. 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 2 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer 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.

What this recall was for

The allergens named in this record: wheat, peanuts, tree nuts.

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

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 31 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 30 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 nuts and seeds 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 Houston Pecan Company, Inc

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 30 other records name this firm.

All 31 records for Houston Pecan Company, Inc

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