Meijer Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds, 18 ounces, packed in a Clear plastic container…
Meijer, Inc #816 - Grand River Packaging recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 20 June 2018 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Meijer initiated a voluntary recall of Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds due to undeclared allergen coconut.
The record
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- Product
- Meijer Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds, 18 ounces, packed in a Clear plastic container, 12 containers per case
- Reason for recall
- Meijer initiated a voluntary recall of Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds due to undeclared allergen coconut.
- Recalling firm
- Meijer, Inc #816 - Grand River Packaging
- Firm location
- Grandville, Michigan, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1566-2018
- Quantity
- 1124 units
- Distribution
- Domestic only: MI, OH, IN,
- Initiated
- 21 May 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 20 June 2018
- Terminated
- 10 July 2018
- Firm notified by
- Telephone
- Product codes
- Meijer Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds UPC 7-19283-40301-8 Lot # 01 8106 Sell By 9/24/2018
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 7 weeks, from 21 May 2018 to termination on 10 July 2018. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Nuts and seeds carry both hazards at once: they are a major allergen in their own right, and as a low-moisture food they hold Salmonella for months without supporting its growth, which is why a nut butter recall can trace to a lot pressed a year earlier.
Named in the distribution pattern: Ohio, Indiana. 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
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: tree nuts.
Filed under nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
Other nuts and seeds 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 Meijer, Inc #816 - Grand River Packaging
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-09 | Frederik's by Meijer Dark Chocolate Almonds 12 oz. resealable bag, UPC 7 08820 68730 1, 6 retail units per wholesale case. Frederik's by Meijer Dark Chocolate Almond 12 oz. box of 8, 1.5 oz. individual serving pouches, UPC 7 19283 11923 0, 6 retail units per wholesale case. | Meijer, Inc #816 - Grand River Packaging | undeclared cashews | Class II |
| 2017-06-28 | Meijer Honey Vanilla Bourbon Pecans, 8.5 oz., 6/case, packed in a stand-up pouch. | Meijer, Inc #816 - Grand River Packaging | The firm initiated a voluntary recall of Meijer Honey Vanilla Bourbon Pecans, 8.5 oz., packed in a stand up pouch, due to mislabeling. The label declared cream, milk, and eggs, which were not part of the original formula. The label lacked the following ingredients: Spices, Artificial Flavors, Garlic Powder, Onion Powder, Dextrose, Worcestershire Sauce, Corn Syrup, Salt, Carmel Color, Sugar, Tamarind, Natural Flavor, Malic Acid, Olive Oil, Molasses Sucralose, Bourbon Whiskey, Sulfites & Celery Seeds. | Class II |
All 3 records for Meijer, Inc #816 - Grand River Packaging
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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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