Food recall

Power Selles Imports dba Culinary Collective recall: Blanxart Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts Cacao 33% Min

Power Selles Imports dba Culinary Collective, of Lynnwood, WA, recalled Blanxart Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts Cacao 33% Min. The FDA's reason: “Metal fragment. The small thin metal piece is around 0.5 inch long without sharp edges, was found inside chocolate bar.” The FDA classified it Class II: it could cause temporary or minor harm. The company began the recall voluntarily on March 17, 2021, and the FDA first listed it in its Enforcement Report of April 7, 2021. 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 April 27, 2021

The recall

Company
Power Selles Imports dba Culinary Collective (Lynnwood, WA)
Reason, in FDA's words
“Metal fragment. The small thin metal piece is around 0.5 inch long without sharp edges, was found inside chocolate bar.”
Where it was sold
distributed in MA, NY, OR, and WA.
Recall began
, by the company
FDA classified it
First in an FDA Enforcement Report
FDA event number
87544

The product recalled

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

  • F-0365-2021 Class II

    Blanxart Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts Cacao 33% Min. Net wt.7 oz. Product is packaged with paper and internal foil wrapper. UPC 6 66785 20322 9. The label is read in parts: "***BLANXART Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts CACAO 33% *** BB Chocolate Grup, S.A Tambor del Bruc 13 08970 Sant Joan Despi Barcelona, Spain *** Imported By: Culinary Collective Lynnwood, WA ***".

    Codes: Code BX203, Case lot # 2047026, Unit lot # Lot 81030, best by date of 01/2022.

    Quantity: 12 cases (11/7 oz. 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 April 7, 2021.

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.