Maple Almond Butter 16 oz Jar (Unit USPC 894455000322, Case USPC 894455002135)
Justin'S Nut Butter recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 11 September 2013 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Justi's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter.
The record
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- Product
- Maple Almond Butter 16 oz Jar (Unit USPC 894455000322, Case USPC 894455002135)
- Reason for recall
- Justi's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter.
- Recalling firm
- Justin'S Nut Butter
- Firm location
- Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-1874-2013
- Quantity
- 5,649 master cases (6 jars per master case)
- Distribution
- Nationwide. No foreign, military, gov't, VA distribution.
- Initiated
- 16 August 2013
- Reported by FDA
- 11 September 2013
- Terminated
- 6 January 2014
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Lot Code 188 (Best By Date 07/07/14) Lot Code 190 (Best By Date 07/09/14) Lot Code 191 (Best By Date 07/10/14)
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 is one of 2 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 2 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 2. All 2 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 5 months, from 16 August 2013 to termination on 6 January 2014. 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 4 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 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.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 2 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 1 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-11 | Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz Jar (Unit UPC 894455000490, Case UPC 894455000612) | Justin'S Nut Butter | Justin's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter. | Class III |
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 Justin'S Nut Butter
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 9 other records name this firm.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-09-11 | Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz Jar (Unit UPC 894455000490, Case UPC 894455000612) | Justin'S Nut Butter | Justin's has initiated a voluntary recall of certain lots of its Maple Almond Butter 16oz jars and its Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz jars due to the presence of foreign metallic fragments in unpackaged nut butter. | Class III |
| 2012-10-31 | Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, 5 lb, Material Number F0004701, 45 lb Material number F0033001. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Honey Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000001, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC 894455000094. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups 1.4 oz, UPC 894455000247. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups 1.4 oz, UPC 894455000254. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Organic Classic Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000117, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC 894455000087. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Natural Chocolate Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 894455000476, 1.15 oz squeeze packs UPC 894455000506. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Natural Honey Peanut Butter; 16 oz jars, UPC 855188003035; Natural Honey Peanut Butter Squeeze Packs 0.5 oz, UPC 894455000391, Natural Honey Peanut Butter Squeeze Packs 1.15 oz, UPC 855188003042. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
| 2012-10-31 | Natural Classic Peanut Butter 16 oz UPC 855188003004, 1.15 oz Squeeze Packs UPC 855188003011. | Justin's Nut Butter | A voluntary recall has been initiated of certain lots and sizes of Justin's Classic Peanut Butter, Organic Peanut Butter, and Natural Honey Peanut Butter in response to Sunland, Inc. voluntarily recalling their nut butter products. These products have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. On 10/04/2012, Justin's expanded the recall to include more date codes as well as certain lots o | Class I |
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