Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz Jar (Unit UPC 894455000490, Case UPC 894455000612)

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. 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.

The record

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Product

Chocolate Hazelnut Butter 16oz Jar (Unit UPC 894455000490, Case UPC 894455000612)

UPC

894455000490

Reason for recall

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.

Recalling firm

Justin'S Nut Butter

Firm location

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Classification

Class III

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-1875-2013

Quantity

1,512 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 191 (Best By Date 07/10/14) Lot Code 192 (Best By Date 07/11/14)

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. 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 2 of them.
• 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

Filed under milk and dairy, nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. 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 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.

All 10 records for Justin's Nut Butter

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