Food recall

Power Selles Imports dba Culinary Collective recall: Blanxart 85% Nicaragua Organic Dark Chocolate Bar

Power Selles Imports dba Culinary Collective, of Lynnwood, WA, recalled Blanxart 85% Nicaragua Organic Dark Chocolate Bar. The FDA's reason: “A foreign object found by a consumer in dark chocolate bar.” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on June 23, 2020, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of July 15, 2020. 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

Metal, plastic, glass or other objects

Status

Terminated

Closed July 27, 2020

The recall

Company
Power Selles Imports dba Culinary Collective (Lynnwood, WA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“A foreign object found by a consumer in dark chocolate bar.”
Where it was sold
Distributed in ID, CA, OR, WA, UT and in CANADA.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
85909

The product recalled

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

  • F-1016-2020 Class II

    Blanxart 85% Nicaragua Organic Dark Chocolate Bar, packaged in paper packaging with internal foil wrapper. Net weight 4.4 oz (125 g). UPC 8 32924 00058 9. Product's label is read in parts: "***BLANXART 85% NICARAGUA ORGANIC DARK CHOCOLATE***Organic dark chocolate, Cocoa 85% minimum. Ingredients: cocoa, cane sugar, cocoa butter *** BB Chocolate Group, SA c/Tambor del Bruc 13 -17 08970 Sant Joan Desp, Spain *** Made in Spain ***Imported by: Culinary Collective Lynnwood, WA ***".

    Codes: Product BX 418, Lot 19112031, date code stamp 3-10 with best by date of 3/27/2021. The code breaks down as follows: Product BX418 (importer code). 49085 (manufacturer code). Lot 19112031 with date code stamp 3-10.

    Quantity: 72 cases (16 bars 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 July 15, 2020.

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.