Food recall

Enjoy Life Natural Brands recall: Semi-Sweet Chocolate mini chips packaged in a plastic bad with yellow label and white lettering.

Enjoy Life Natural Brands, of Schiller Park, IL, recalled Semi-Sweet Chocolate mini chips packaged in a plastic bad with yellow label and white lettering.. The FDA's reason: “Packages of Semi-sweet chocolate mini chips may contain undeclared sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and dried fruit from an Enjoy life foods seed and fruit mix product that was inadvertently added...” The FDA classified it Class III: it is unlikely to cause harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on August 28, 2015, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of November 25, 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 III

It is unlikely to cause harm

Why

Other ingredient not on the label (sulfites, dyes...)

Status

Terminated

Closed July 7, 2016

The recall

Company
Enjoy Life Natural Brands (Schiller Park, IL)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Packages of Semi-sweet chocolate mini chips may contain undeclared sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and dried fruit from an Enjoy life foods seed and fruit mix product that was inadvertently added to the Semi-sweet chocolate mini chips product.”
Where it was sold
24 distributors
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
72191

The product recalled

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

  • F-0188-2016 Class III

    Semi-Sweet Chocolate mini chips packaged in a plastic bad with yellow label and white lettering.

    Codes: UPC: 853522 000306 Lot: 150618 Best By Date: 06/18/2016

    Quantity: 3, 900 cases, 12 bags per case

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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 November 25, 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.