Food recall

Whole Foods Market recall: Jivara Lactee Milk Chocolate Valrhona

Whole Foods Market, of Emeryville, CA, recalled Jivara Lactee Milk Chocolate Valrhona. The FDA's reason: “One retail location incorrectly labeled Jivara Lactee Milk Chocolate Valrhona cut and wrap pieces without hazelnuts declared on the product label.” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on May 23, 2015, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of July 1, 2015. The FDA has closed the recall: it found the company did all it reasonably could to remove or correct the product.

How serious

Class II

It could cause temporary or minor harm

Why

Allergen not on the label

Status

Terminated

Closed June 22, 2015

The recall

Company
Whole Foods Market (Emeryville, CA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“One retail location incorrectly labeled Jivara Lactee Milk Chocolate Valrhona cut and wrap pieces without hazelnuts declared on the product label.”
Where it was sold
CA
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
71338

The product recalled

As the FDA describes them, with the codes that tell whether a package is part of the recall.

  • F-2738-2015 Class II

    Jivara Lactee Milk Chocolate Valrhona; 40% Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, whole powdered milk, sugar, cocoa beans, brown sugar, natural vanilla extract, soya lecithin, malt extract, Natural Vanilla Flavor. Contains: Soy,. May contain trace amounts of dairy, eggs, nuts and gluten as it produced on the same machinery. UPC 2503044025508 Whole Foods Market, Emeryville, CA 95408

    Codes: Pac dates prior to May 19, 2915. UPC 2503044025508.

    Quantity: xx

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Source and notes

U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Enforcement Reports (openFDA food recall data) (Public domain (U.S. government work); source U.S. Food and Drug Administration, openFDA), data as of July 1, 2015.

Each week the FDA lists the recalls it has classified in its Enforcement Report, often weeks after the company announced the recall, so a month with five weekly reports tends to count more. Each recall counts once, however many products it covers, in the month FDA first listed it. Class I means the food could cause serious harm or death, Class II temporary or minor harm, and Class III is unlikely to harm anyone. Meat, poultry and most egg products are recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, not the FDA, and aren't included. For what to do with a recalled product, see the FDA's recalls page.