Organic Pinenuts. 5lb bag: Organic Pine nuts packed into plastic bag with a twist tie…
Honey Heaven Wholesale, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 5 September 2012 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Organic Pinenuts are recalled due to potential contamination of peanuts or traces of peanuts.
The record
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Product
Organic Pinenuts. 5lb bag: Organic Pine nuts packed into plastic bag with a twist tie with a White stick on label with hand written product description. 27.5lb bag: Organic Pine nuts inside of a plastic bag with a white stick on label with typed product description.
Reason for recall
Organic Pinenuts are recalled due to potential contamination of peanuts or traces of peanuts.
Product was distributed to retail stores in California, Oregon and Washington
Initiated
14 August 2012
Reported by FDA
5 September 2012
Terminated
11 September 2012
Firm notified by
Press Release
Product codes
Lot 40034 and all organic pinenuts distributed between March 22, 2012 to August 14, 2012
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 4 weeks, from 14 August 2012 to termination on 11 September 2012. 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 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter than usual 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.
Filed under nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.
Other nuts and seeds recalls
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
Undeclared hazelnut. The Oregon Trail Mix contains visible hazelnut and was mis-labeled as Organic Roasted Salted Cashews, but the label does not declare hazelnut.
Seven inch by three quarter inch metal bar was found in a 25# bag of Organic Chia seed when product was being repacked into 5# bags. Metal bar had a jagged edge, with a metal flake loosely attached. There is a possibility that there may have been additional metal flakes that would not be easily seen by consumers.
Hummingbird Wholesale was notified by their Organic Carob Powder supplier of the voluntary recall of this product due to potential Salmonella contamination.
Behind every recall is a clause 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.
Recall records come from the openFDA food enforcement API, published by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the public domain. Krolda adds the hazard classification and the clause mapping; neither is an FDA determination. Always check the FDA notice before acting on a recall.
