Organic Yellow Popcorn packaged in the following ways: 1) Great Northern Organic…
Preferred Popcorn recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 16 September 2020 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Popcorn may contain foreign material: tempered glass between 3 mm and 7 mm in size
The record
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- Product
- Organic Yellow Popcorn packaged in the following ways: 1) Great Northern Organic Popcorn, Net Wt. 5 Pounds (2.26 Kilograms), UPC 6 10708 14709 1; 2) Hometown Food Company, Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 3) Lesser Evil, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2185 LBS Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 4) Medium Organic Yellow Popcorn, 25 LB (11.34 Kg) Preferred Popcorn LLC; 5) Medium Organic Yellow Popcorn, 50 LB (22.68 Kg) Preferred Popcorn LLC; 6) Shearer's, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 7) Specialty Food Group, Organic Yellow Butterfly Popcorn, 2200 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 8) Trader Joes Organic Popping Corn, Net Wt. 28 OZ (1 lb 12 oz) 794 g, Dist. & Sold Exclusively by Trader Joe's Monrovia, CA UPC 0094 5288 9) Troystar Packaging, Inc. Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2000 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 10) Whole Alternatives, Organic Butterfly Popcorn, 2000 LBS, Preferred Popcorn LLC Chapman, NE; 11) Preferred Popcorn Organic Yellow Popcorn, Net Wt. 28oz / 794 g, Preferred Popcorn, LLC, Chapman, NE, UPC 7 64256 44035 4 12) Preferred Popcorn Organic Butterfly Popcorn, Net Wt. 50 lbs (22.68 kg), Preferred Popcorn, LLC, Chapman, NE, UPC 7 64256 30002 3
- UPC
- 610708147091
- Reason for recall
- Popcorn may contain foreign material: tempered glass between 3 mm and 7 mm in size
- Recalling firm
- Preferred Popcorn
- Firm location
- Chapman, Nebraska, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1437-2020
- Quantity
- 1,162,117 lbs
- Distribution
- Distributed to the US States CA, CO, CT, FL, IA, IL, KY, OH, SD, WI, and British Columbia, Canada
- Initiated
- 28 August 2020
- Reported by FDA
- 16 September 2020
- Terminated
- 23 October 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- PN116-9402A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9560A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9048A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9171A,Exp: 6/2021: PN122-9241A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9248A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9304A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9342A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9343A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9366A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9367A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9370A,Exp: 7/2021: PN122-9437A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9559A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9601A,Exp: 8/2021: PN122-9602A,Exp: 8/2021: PN125-9538A,Exp: 8/2021: PN125-9610A,Exp: 9/2021: PN128-9266A,Exp: 7/2021: PNB128-9102A,Exp: 8/2021: PNR1229140A,BB 02-JUL-2021: PNR1229243A,BB 09-JUL-2021: PNR1229286A,Exp: 03-AUG-2021: PNR1229406A,BB 04-AUG-2021: PNR1229476A,BB 31-JAN-2022: PNR1229479A,BB 31-JAN-2022: PNR1229547A,BB 05-AUG-2021: PNR1229639A,Exp: 8/2021: PNR1279183A,BB 25-JUN-2021: PNT116-9328A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9079A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9080A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9093A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9094A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9195A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9283A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9307A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9318A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9326A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT122-9364A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9440A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9493A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9550A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT122-9566A,Exp: 9/2021: PNT127-9242A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT128-9077A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT128-9291A,Exp: 8/2021: PNT128-9313A,Exp: 7/2021: PNT128-9314A,Exp: 7/2021
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 8 weeks, from 28 August 2020 to termination on 23 October 2020. 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 9 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks 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: Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
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.
All 2020 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.40 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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