CHOCOLATE MILK CHOCOLATE MEIJI, 1.75 oz. Item number 70378 UPC 074410703783 - only on…
Wismettac Asian Foods, INC recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 June 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Some chocolate products imported from Japan do not have the English label for Nutrition facts, ingredients or allergens, which include milk, soy, egg, tree nuts.
The record
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Product
CHOCOLATE MILK CHOCOLATE MEIJI, 1.75 oz. Item number 70378 UPC 074410703783 - only on those bars with English labeling. Distributed by Wismettac Asian Foods, Inc.
UPC
074410703783
Reason for recall
Some chocolate products imported from Japan do not have the English label for Nutrition facts, ingredients or allergens, which include milk, soy, egg, tree nuts.
90 cases (10 individual items in inner carton) x 12 / master case
Distribution
AZ, CA, CO, NV, TX, UT and one customer in Mexico
Initiated
16 May 2019
Reported by FDA
19 June 2019
Terminated
5 July 2019
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
Bars with Japanese Bar code of JAN(4902777015927)
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 7 weeks, from 16 May 2019 to termination on 5 July 2019. 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 6 states, and 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Utah. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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.
Undeclared Soy. The firm received complaints of sausage in the burritos. Upon review the firm discovered the sausage contains soy which is not listed on the label.
Product was found to contain sesame that were not declared on the ingredient label. Potential for product mix up, so product i being recalled out of an abundance of caution
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
