Asher's Chocolate Co. Milk Chocolate (09611) Peanut Butter Cup 2.35 oz.; 24 pc./box…

Ashers Chocolates/Lewistown, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 April 2017 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

The record

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Product

Asher's Chocolate Co. Milk Chocolate (09611) Peanut Butter Cup 2.35 oz.; 24 pc./box.; Asher's Chocolate Co. Milk Chocolate (09618) Peanut Butter Cup Mini; 4 lb..; Asher's Chocolate Co. Milk Chocolate (11806) Peanut Butter Cup; 2.35 oz. 24/box.; Asher's Chocolate Co. Milk Chocolate (82024) Disney Peanut Butter Cup 2; 24 piece box;

Reason for recall

Product has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.

Recalling firm

Ashers Chocolates/Lewistown, Inc.

Firm location

Lewistown, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2040-2017

Quantity

737 units

Distribution

AL; AR; CA ; CO; CT; DC; DE; FL; GA; IL; IN; KY; LA ; MA ; MD ME; MI; MN; MO; MT; NC; ND; NH; NJ; NM; NY; OH; OK; OR; PA ; RI ; SC; SD; TN; TX; VA; VT; WA; WI; WV; WY

Initiated

2 September 2016

Reported by FDA

26 April 2017

Terminated

17 August 2017

Firm notified by

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

Product codes

(09611)Lot #'s: 000337363; 000336091; 000336447; 000335716; 000335716; (09618): Lot #'s: 000335927; (11806) Peanut Butter Cup: Lot #'s: 000335464; 000335967; 000336870; 000337310; 000337561; 000336199; 000336615; 000337779; 000338158; (82024): Lot #: 000337150;

Reading this record

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

• Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. 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 87 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 87 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 87. All 87 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 11 months, from 2 September 2016 to termination on 17 August 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 distribution pattern names 39 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 8 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.

Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.

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.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 87 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 86 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.

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 Ashers Chocolates/Lewistown, Inc.

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 86 other records name this firm.

All 87 records for Ashers Chocolates/Lewistown, Inc.

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