Tunas Turkish Delight Rose Flavored, Net Wt. 14.11 oz., US Importer and Distributor…
Turkana Food Inc. recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 1 October 2014 as Class III. The recall was initiated by the firm. Tunas Turkish Delight Rose Flavored contains Ponceau 4R which is an unapproved color in the US.
The record
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- Product
- Tunas Turkish Delight Rose Flavored, Net Wt. 14.11 oz., US Importer and Distributor: Turkana Food, Inc., Exporter: Tunas Food Industry, UPC 86925940080
- UPC
- 86925940080
- Reason for recall
- Tunas Turkish Delight Rose Flavored contains Ponceau 4R which is an unapproved color in the US.
- Recalling firm
- Turkana Food Inc.
- Firm location
- Kenilworth, New Jersey, United States
- Classification
- Class III
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-2489-2014
- Quantity
- 18 cases (12 per case)
- Distribution
- NY
- Initiated
- 15 July 2014
- Reported by FDA
- 1 October 2014
- Terminated
- 21 April 2016
- Firm notified by
- Letter
- Product codes
- None
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 record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 21 months, from 15 July 2014 to termination on 21 April 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 1 state, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
- The product description on this record names no food this site can classify, so it appears on no food-type page. That is a limit of the description rather than of the recall.
What this recall was for
Unapproved ingredients
An unapproved ingredient recall means a product contained a substance not permitted in food, most often an undisclosed pharmaceutical active found in a dietary supplement.
A preventive controls plan covers an unapproved ingredient 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 111
- Dietary supplement CGMP: the identity, purity, strength and composition specifications a supplement manufacturer sets and verifies for every component and finished batch.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
Other records from Turkana Food Inc.
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 6 other records name this firm.
All 7 records for Turkana Food Inc.
All 2014 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 111 is the clause behind this recall, and it is one 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.
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