Day Break Chocolate Hazelnut Bar 6x5, UPC: 637480055321, Case UPC: 637480059534.

Atkins Nutritionals, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 27 July 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Atkins Nutritionals is recalling certain bar products because they contain or may have come in contact with equipment that processed product containing sunflower seeds distributed by supplier SunOpta Inc. that have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

Day Break Chocolate Hazelnut Bar 6x5, UPC: 637480055321, Case UPC: 637480059534. Packaging: Outer paper carton containing individually wrapped bars, Ambient Storage

UPC

637480055321

Reason for recall

Atkins Nutritionals is recalling certain bar products because they contain or may have come in contact with equipment that processed product containing sunflower seeds distributed by supplier SunOpta Inc. that have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

Firm location

Denver, Colorado, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1716-2016

Quantity

17,033 cases

Distribution

Nationwide. Canadian and foreign consignees. No VA/govt/military.

Initiated

3 June 2016

Reported by FDA

27 July 2016

Terminated

13 February 2017

Firm notified by

Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit

Product codes

Lot K52964, Best By 10/23/2016; Lot K53504, Best By 12/16/2016; Lot K53514, Best By 12/17/2016; Lot K53524, Best By 12/18/2016

Reading this record

Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.

• Class 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 11 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 11 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 11. 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 11 of them.
• The recall ran for 8 months, from 3 June 2016 to termination on 13 February 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 8 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.

What this recall was for

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 Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 10 other records name this firm.

All 11 records for Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

All 2016 recalls · All FDA food recall data