Southern Grove Cashews with Sea Salt, a 10 ounce stand up pouch bag with a UPC 0 38445…
Kanan Enterprises, Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 28 September 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. This recall has been initiated due to the possible presence of peanuts.
The record
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Product
Southern Grove Cashews with Sea Salt, a 10 ounce stand up pouch bag with a UPC 0 38445 12286 5 and the date codes of Best By May 24 2017 KN and August 05 2017 KN
UPC
038445122865
Reason for recall
This recall has been initiated due to the possible presence of peanuts.
US nationwide. The product was distributed to the following states: OH, KS, MN.
Initiated
3 September 2016
Reported by FDA
28 September 2016
Terminated
20 December 2016
Firm notified by
Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
Product codes
UPC 0 38445 12286 5 and the date codes of Best By May 24 2017 KN and August 05 2017 KN.
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
The recall ran for 4 months, from 3 September 2016 to termination on 20 December 2016. 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 2 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 4 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.
Named in the distribution pattern: Kansas, Minnesota. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
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.
The firm was notified by a customer that Wasabi Soy Almonds were in bags labeled Unsalted Almonds. Wasabi Almonds contains wheat, soy and peanut oil which are not listed in the ingredient statement.
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.
