KellBran" CANDIES, INC. creamy rich caramel popcorn Net Wt. 8 oz. (226.64 Grams) ALLERGY…
Kellbran Candies and Snacks Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 23 September 2015 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. The firm was notified by the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture of possible mislabeling with their Allergen declaration of undeclared milk.
The record
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- Product
- KellBran" CANDIES, INC. creamy rich caramel popcorn Net Wt. 8 oz. (226.64 Grams) ALLERGY INFO: Manufactured in a facility that processes peanuts, nuts, soy and milk. UPC 0 96637 50153 9 kellbrancandies.com KellBran Candies, Inc. Akron, Ohio 44312
- UPC
- 096637501539
- Reason for recall
- The firm was notified by the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture of possible mislabeling with their Allergen declaration of undeclared milk.
- Recalling firm
- Kellbran Candies and Snacks Inc
- Firm location
- Akron, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-3226-2015
- Quantity
- 150cs/40/8 oz bags
- Distribution
- Product was shipped to the following states: AL, AR, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA & WI.
- Initiated
- 21 July 2015
- Reported by FDA
- 23 September 2015
- Terminated
- 19 October 2015
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Best Used By: 11/30/2015 Lot 181317 4 & Best Used By: 12/31/2015 211830 6
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 3 months, from 21 July 2015 to termination on 19 October 2015. 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 24 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 2 months after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of milk or a dairy product run a median of 7 months, so this one was shorter 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: Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas. 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
Undeclared allergens
An undeclared allergen recall means a food contained one of the major allergens and the label did not say so, either because the wrong label was applied or because an ingredient carried an allergen nobody traced.
A preventive controls plan covers an undeclared allergen 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 117.135(c)(2)
- Food allergen controls: the written preventive controls that keep an allergen out of a food it does not belong in, and that get the allergens present onto the label.
- 21 CFR 101.4
- Ingredient declaration: every ingredient listed by its common name, in descending order of predominance, on the label of a packaged food.
- 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.
The allergens named in this record: milk.
Filed under milk and dairy, nuts and seeds and snacks and confectionery. A product can sit in more than one.
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 Kellbran Candies and Snacks Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-12-20 | DRIZZLED VANILLA POPCORN Net Wt. 3 oz (84.9g) Ingredients: Popcorn, corn syrup, sugar, lecithin***ALLERGY INFO: Manufactured in a facility that processes Milk, Wheat, Soy, Tree Nuts, Peanuts Stew Leonard's 100 Westport Ave., Norwalk, CT | Kellbran Candies and Snacks Inc | The firm was informed that they did not declare soy in their ingredient statement. | Class II |
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