Hanover Foods Corporation Warning Letter Details

Summary

Hanover Foods Corporation received a warning for two misbranded food products: Baked Rice Pudding and Cheddar Flavored Popcorn (mislabeled as Butter Flavored), which failed to declare major food allergens—milk and egg in the pudding and milk in the popcorn—on their labels, violating the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The pudding was particularly problematic as it bore the ingredient list for Red Chicken Chili with Beans instead of its actual contents. The company attributed the pudding mislabeling to a software malfunction that created a duplicate database in their labeling system, which they subsequently corrected through deletion and implementation of enhanced quality assurance procedures requiring daily label audits.