Thick-It Original Food & Beverage Thickener 6/36 oz. jars per case
Kent Precision Foods Group, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 14 September 2022 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Food and beverage thickener recalled because of possible insanitary conditions during manufacturing
The record
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Product
Thick-It Original Food & Beverage Thickener 6/36 oz. jars per case
Reason for recall
Food and beverage thickener recalled because of possible insanitary conditions during manufacturing
Distributed to food service distributors for use in hospitals, nursing homes and similar facilities. Specific distribution information pending.
Initiated
9 June 2022
Reported by FDA
14 September 2022
Terminated
20 December 2022
Firm notified by
Letter
Product codes
2B0045802 best by 10/2024 2B0042678 best by 11/2024
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
Class III means the FDA judged that the product was unlikely to cause harm but violated FDA labelling or manufacturing regulation. 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 6 months, from 9 June 2022 to termination on 20 December 2022. 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 3 months after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of a beverage or juice run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Juice is the other food with its own HACCP regulation in the United States, 21 CFR part 120, which requires a treatment achieving a 5-log reduction of the pertinent pathogen, and unpasteurised juice recalls are almost always a failure of that step or an exemption misapplied.
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.
The firm discovered that certain units shipped to the U.S. retail stores only has "foreign languages" on the label. Product has undeclared wheat, soy, milk, eggs and tree nut (coconut).
Undeclared Soy. Finished product ingredients statement declares Worcestershire sauce but does not declare sub-ingredients Soy Flavoring and Soy Lecithin.
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.
