Whole Foods Market Brand 365, Llc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 22 February 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. According to the firm, packaged crusts used in various tarts these tarts contains Almond Flour (Nuts) which is listed as an ingredient on the package, but is not listed as an ingredient on the WFM scale label.
The record
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Product
Whole Foods Market, TART PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE
Reason for recall
According to the firm, packaged crusts used in various tarts these tarts contains Almond Flour (Nuts) which is listed as an ingredient on the package, but is not listed as an ingredient on the WFM scale label.
According to the firm the product was distributed in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, District of Columbia, Ohio, Kentucky.
Initiated
2 January 2017
Reported by FDA
22 February 2017
Terminated
5 July 2017
Firm notified by
E-Mail
Product codes
22024600000 TART PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE 22061300000 TART PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE 22061400000 TART PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE
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 8 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 8 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 8. 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 8 of them.
The recall ran for 6 months, from 2 January 2017 to termination on 5 July 2017. 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 7 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.
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.
According to the firm, packaged crusts used in various tarts these tarts contains Almond Flour (Nuts) which is listed as an ingredient on the package, but is not listed as an ingredient on the WFM scale label.
According to the firm, packaged crusts used in various tarts these tarts contains Almond Flour (Nuts) which is listed as an ingredient on the package, but is not listed as an ingredient on the WFM scale label.
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.
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