MaraNatha¿ All Natural Sunflower Seed Butter, NET WT 12 OZ (340g)., UPC 0 51651-09367 5
The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. - Worldwide HQ recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 3 August 2016 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. A potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination was verified by the sunflower seed raw material supplier.
The record
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- Product
- MaraNatha¿ All Natural Sunflower Seed Butter, NET WT 12 OZ (340g)., UPC 0 51651-09367 5
- UPC
- 051651093675
- Reason for recall
- A potential for Listeria monocytogenes contamination was verified by the sunflower seed raw material supplier.
- Recalling firm
- The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. - Worldwide HQ
- Firm location
- New Hyde Park, New York, United States
- Classification
- Class I
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1845-2016
- Quantity
- 14,533 cases (12/12oz)
- Distribution
- Products were distributed across the United States. The products also were available for purchase on the internet.
- Initiated
- 3 June 2016
- Reported by FDA
- 3 August 2016
- Terminated
- 15 June 2018
- Firm notified by
- Press Release
- Product codes
- Use By 28JUL16 thru 05DEC16
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 2.0 years, from 3 June 2016 to termination on 15 June 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 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Dairy recalls split between pathogen contamination in products that skipped or under-ran pasteurisation and undeclared milk in products that should never have contained it, which is the same allergen viewed from two directions.
What this recall was for
Listeria monocytogenes
Listeria monocytogenes is a bacterium that grows at refrigeration temperature, which is why it dominates recalls of ready-to-eat foods that are never cooked again before they are eaten.
A preventive controls plan covers Listeria 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)(3)
- Sanitation controls: the controls on cleaning food-contact surfaces and on preventing cross-contact and cross-contamination from insanitary objects, people and equipment.
- 21 CFR 117.165(a)(3)
- Environmental monitoring: testing the processing environment for an environmental pathogen, required when a ready-to-eat food is exposed to the environment before packaging.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under milk and dairy and nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.
Other milk and dairy 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 The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. - Worldwide HQ
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-27 | BluePrint ORGANIC Beet Blast Vegetable & Fruit Drink 16 fl.oz.(473mL) USDA Organic. Keep Refrigerated. | The Hain Celestial Group, Inc. - Worldwide HQ | The label on the back of the bottle may be for the incorrect product. | Class III |
All 2016 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(3) 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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