Buccaneer Candy Bar chocolatey nougat in a a rice-milk chocolately coating, 2.0 oz…
Go Max Go Foods recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 29 May 2013 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Go Max Go Foods is recalling various lots of vegan candy bar products containing the statement "dairy-free" due to undeclared milk.
The record
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- Product
- Buccaneer Candy Bar chocolatey nougat in a a rice-milk chocolately coating, 2.0 oz, dairy-free, vegan, no trans fats, nothing artificial. Distributed by Go Max Go Foods, LLC 40 Paseo Del Antilope, Santa Fe, NM 87506.
- Reason for recall
- Go Max Go Foods is recalling various lots of vegan candy bar products containing the statement "dairy-free" due to undeclared milk.
- Recalling firm
- Go Max Go Foods
- Firm location
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1434-2013
- Quantity
- 53,916 bars
- Distribution
- Nationwide distribution to 14 distributors and 26 retailers. Products were distributed to Canada, UK, Germany, and Australia. No government or VA consignees.
- Initiated
- 22 April 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 29 May 2013
- Terminated
- 10 September 2013
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- UPC 899033002026
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 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 5 months, from 22 April 2013 to termination on 10 September 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 milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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
Undeclared allergens
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.
The allergens named in this record: milk.
Filed under milk and dairy, snacks and confectionery and grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Go Max Go Foods
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 Go Max Go Foods
All 2013 recalls · All FDA food recall data
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.
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