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Atkins Nutritionals Inc.
Recall · Class I2016-06-03Terminated

May contain listeria, a germ that can cause serious illness.

Atkins Nutritionals is recalling certain bar products because they contain or may have come in contact with equipment that processed product containing sunflower seeds distributed by supplier SunOpta Inc. that have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

Above, in the agency’s own words. The line before it is our plain-English summary — how we word these.

Issued by the US Food and Drug Administration, naming Atkins Nutritionals Inc..

What the notice covered

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bar 6x5, UPC: 637480022774, Case UPC: 00637480025577. Packaging: Outer paper carton containing individually wrapped bars, Ambient Storage

Quoted from the record as published. If a product is not described here, this notice does not tell us whether it was affected.

What Class I means

The FDA’s most serious class: a reasonable probability that using the product will cause serious health consequences or death.

This is the agency’s own definition of the class. We do not assign classes and we do not rank them against each other.

The record

Agency
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Reference number
F-1720-2016
Kind of action
Recall
Dated
2016-06-03
Terminated
2017-02-13
Status on the record
Terminated
We read it
2026-10-01

Regulates most packaged food, drugs and devices. Its recall records are published weekly in the Enforcement Report.

Products we matched to this notice

Advantage protein-rich chocolate peanut butterthe notice printed this product’s barcode: “637480022774”

How we are treating it

This notice concerns the product line itself or how it was produced.

The government record

The FDA publishes this notice through its enforcement API, so the link below returns raw JSON rather than a readable page. It is the primary record and we cite it as such; everything above is our transcription of it.

https://api.fda.gov/food/enforcement.json?search=recall_number:"F-1720-2016"

To see it in the FDA’s own words, search the reference number F-1720-2016 in the Search the FDA Enforcement Report. The FDA publishes no direct link to an individual recall.

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