YouBar Whole Food Bar - Cashew Cherry (SKU YB-CHC-001) Packed in a plain white synthetic…

YouBar recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 26 July 2017 as Class I. The recall was initiated by the firm. Firm was notified by supplier that cashew butter used in protein bars is under recall due to the potential of Listeria monocytogenes.

The record

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Product

YouBar Whole Food Bar - Cashew Cherry (SKU YB-CHC-001) Packed in a plain white synthetic packaging and under YouBar label. 12 bars per box. Non GMO. Gluten Free, Vegan 1.58 oz. (45g): Manufactured by YouBar Inc. Monterey Park, CA.

Reason for recall

Firm was notified by supplier that cashew butter used in protein bars is under recall due to the potential of Listeria monocytogenes.

Recalling firm

YouBar

Firm location

Monterey Park, California, United States

Classification

Class I

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-2623-2017

Quantity

5 boxes of 12 bars each for plain packaging: 612 YouBar brand

Distribution

Direct customers

Initiated

14 June 2017

Reported by FDA

26 July 2017

Terminated

5 December 2017

Firm notified by

Telephone

Product codes

(SKU YB-CHC-001) Expiration date: 11/26/2017 - plain white wrapping: YouBar brand: Code 0977-02, Expiration date 10/04/2017.

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 is one of 33 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 33 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 33. All 33 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 6 months, from 14 June 2017 to termination on 5 December 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 FDA published the enforcement report 6 weeks after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of nuts or seeds run a median of 7 months, so this one was about typical 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.

What this recall was for

Filed under nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 33 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 32 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 nuts and seeds 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 YouBar

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 32 other records name this firm.

All 33 records for YouBar

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