Kellogg's Honey Smacks, 15.3 oz. and 23 oz.
Kellogg Company recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 June 2018 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Kellogg North America initiated a voluntary recall of Kellogg s Honey Smacks, 15.3 oz. and 23 oz., due to potential contamination with Salmonella.
The record
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- Product
- Kellogg's Honey Smacks, 15.3 oz. and 23 oz.
- Reason for recall
- Kellogg North America initiated a voluntary recall of Kellogg s Honey Smacks, 15.3 oz. and 23 oz., due to potential contamination with Salmonella.
- Recalling firm
- Kellogg Company
- Firm location
- Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1650-2018
- Quantity
- 1,145,030 Cases
- Distribution
- Domestic: Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii, Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakokta South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Foreign:Aruba Bahamas Bayamon Frenc.Polynesia Guam Guatemala Haiti Nether.Antill. Northern Mariana Isl Panama Saint George Tortola US Virgin Islands Mexico Costa Rica Military: Alabama California Florida Hawaii Indiana Maryland Mississippi Montana Oklahoma Pennsylvania Texas Virginia
- Initiated
- 14 June 2018
- Reported by FDA
- 27 June 2018
- Terminated
- 18 October 2018
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Honey Smacks 15.3 oz., UPC: 3800039103, and 23 oz. UPC: 3800014810, Best if Used By dates: JUN 14, 2018 through JUN 14, 2019 and
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 4 months, from 14 June 2018 to termination on 18 October 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 FDA published the enforcement report 13 days after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a sauce, dip or condiment run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter than usual for its category. Sauces and dips sit at the intersection of the acidified foods rule and the allergen rule: an equilibrium pH above 4.6 turns a shelf-stable product into a botulism risk, and the ingredient list is long enough that an allergen is easy to lose.
What this recall was for
Salmonella
Salmonella is a bacterium that survives in low-moisture foods for months, which is why it appears in recalls of products that carry no water for it to grow in: nut butters, spices, flour and dry pet food.
A preventive controls plan covers Salmonella contamination 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)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 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.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(2)
- Product testing: testing as a verification activity, appropriate to the facility, the food and the nature of the preventive control.
Filed under sauces, dips and condiments. A product can sit in more than one.
Other sauces, dips and condiments 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 Kellogg Company
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 34 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-10-19 | Kelloggs ¿ Eggo ¿ Nutri-Grain¿ Whole Wheat Waffles 12.3 oz (10 ct) retail carton 8, 12.3 oz retail cartons per case | Kellogg Company | Potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Cookie Dough Minis, 150 ct., 2.5 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Graham Crumbs, 160 oz. , 400 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Animals Crackers; 10 ct., 2.4 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler E. L. Fudge Double Stuffed Sandwich Cookies, 12 ct., 12 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Famous Amos Cookies Chocolate Chip, 12 ct., 12.4 oz.; and 2.7 oz. cup | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Kashi Whole Grain Bars 35 g individual bar, 18 count retail carton (630 g), 6 cartons per case | Kellogg Company | Product contains sunflower seeds potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. | Class I |
| 2016-07-27 | Kashi GOLEAN Honey Pecan Baklava Bars 1.59 oz. individual bar 5 count retail carton (7.95 oz.), 6 cartons per case; 8 count carton (12.72 oz.); 12 count food service carton (19 oz.), 1 carton per case | Kellogg Company | Product contains sunflower seeds potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. | Class I |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Gripz Chips D 325 ct Bulk, .9 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
| 2016-07-27 | Keebler Mini Sandies Shortbread cookies, 100 ct., 1.0 oz. | Kellogg Company | Kellogg Company initiated a voluntary recall of multiple snack food items because of the potential for undeclared allergen peanut due to a supplier's recall of flour. | Class II |
All 35 records for Kellogg Company
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21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) 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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