Sprouts Farmers Market Whey Protein Chocolate: 1 lbs, 2 lbs : Whey Protein/Isolate, Soy…

Chemi- Source Inc, Nutra Pak recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 12 June 2013 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Source of whey ingredient not listed as milk, an allergen. Consumers who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.

The record

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Product

Sprouts Farmers Market Whey Protein Chocolate: 1 lbs, 2 lbs : Whey Protein/Isolate, Soy Lecithin UPC 6-46670 68120-2 (1 lbs) UPC 6-46670 68126-4 (2 lbs)

UPC

646670681202

Reason for recall

Source of whey ingredient not listed as milk, an allergen. Consumers who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume these products.

Recalling firm

Chemi- Source Inc, Nutra Pak

Firm location

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1501-2013

Quantity

1 # x 5,872; 2# x 7,798

Distribution

nationwide

Initiated

2 April 2013

Reported by FDA

12 June 2013

Terminated

15 April 2014

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

expiration date between Jan 2013 and March 2016.

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 26 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 26 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 26. 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 26 of them.
• The recall ran for 12 months, from 2 April 2013 to termination on 15 April 2014. 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 fresh produce run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Fresh produce is the category where contamination arrives before the facility does: irrigation water, soil amendments and field workers are the routes, and nothing downstream of the farm is a kill step for a product eaten raw.

What this recall was for

The allergens named in this record: milk.

Filed under fresh produce and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Other fresh produce 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 Chemi- Source Inc, Nutra Pak

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 25 other records name this firm.

All 26 records for Chemi- Source Inc, Nutra Pak

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