Gold Medal Enriched, Presifted, Unbleached All Purpose Flour, Net Wt. 5 lb (2.26 kg), in…
General Mills, Inc recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 9 October 2019 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. 5 lb. bags of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose flour have the potential to be contaminated with E. coli O26:H11
The record
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- Product
- Gold Medal Enriched, Presifted, Unbleached All Purpose Flour, Net Wt. 5 lb (2.26 kg), in paper bags. UPC 16000-19610
- UPC
- 1600019610
- Reason for recall
- 5 lb. bags of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose flour have the potential to be contaminated with E. coli O26:H11
- Recalling firm
- General Mills, Inc
- Firm location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0010-2020
- Quantity
- 127,912 units
- Distribution
- AL, AZ, CA, CT, FL, GA, HI, ID, IL, LA, MA, MD, ME, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, SC, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI
- Initiated
- 16 September 2019
- Reported by FDA
- 9 October 2019
- Terminated
- 2 April 2020
- Firm notified by
- Two or more of the following: Email, Fax, Letter, Press Release, Telephone, Visit
- Product codes
- Better if Used By 06 SEP 2020 KC
Reading this record
Five things about this record are not in the record itself, and each one changes how it should be read.
- Class II means the FDA judged a remote probability of serious harm, or a probability of temporary or medically reversible harm. The class is assigned by an agency health hazard evaluation under 21 CFR 7.41, not by the firm.
- The firm started this recall itself. Most FDA food recalls are voluntary, and a recall is a food safety plan working rather than failing. The circumstances in which the agency asks for one instead are set out in 21 CFR 7.45.
- This record is the only one the FDA opened for its recall event, so it covers a single product code.
- The recall ran for 7 months, from 16 September 2019 to termination on 2 April 2020. Termination means the agency judged that all reasonable effort had been made, under 21 CFR 7.55, and it says nothing about whether product remained in circulation.
- The distribution pattern names 28 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a grain, flour or pasta product run a median of 6 months, so this one was about typical for its category. Flour is a raw agricultural product that consumers treat as though it were cooked, which is the whole reason raw flour recalls exist: nothing in milling is a kill step, and the hazard only appears when somebody eats the dough.
Named in the distribution pattern: Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin. Those pages count recalls by where the RECALLING FIRM sits, which is a different question from where this product went.
What this recall was for
E. coli
Shiga toxin-producing E. coli recalls concentrate in foods eaten raw or lightly cooked, where no step in the process is hot enough or long enough to be a kill step.
A preventive controls plan covers E. coli contamination under the clauses below. This is where the control belongs, not a finding against any firm named on this page: a recall record states a reason, and most of these recalls were initiated by the firm itself.
- 21 CFR 117.135(c)(1)
- Process controls: the controls that apply a treatment, such as a validated kill step, at the point where it reduces the hazard to a safe level.
- 21 CFR 117 subpart G
- Supply-chain programme: the approval and verification a receiving facility runs on a supplier when the hazard is controlled before the ingredient arrives.
- 21 CFR 120
- Juice HACCP: the hazard analysis and critical control point system required for juice processors, including a treatment achieving a 5-log pathogen reduction.
Filed under grains, flour and pasta. A product can sit in more than one.
Other grains, flour and pasta recalls for the same reason
These are the closest records in the corpus: the same kind of food, recalled for a hazard this record also names. Unlike the firm’s own records below, they come from different companies, which is what makes them a pattern rather than a history.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-02-19 | King Arthur All Purpose Flour 25# bags | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | H&R Flour, UNBL, EN, MT / Product Code 706220 in 50# bags | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | Potentate flour / Prod Code: 802217 in 50# bags | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | Bulk flour | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | Commander Flour, Product Code 704220 in 50 lbs bags | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | Bakers Corner All Purpose Flour in 5 lb. bags | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | PB 25 LBS All Purpose Flour Product Code 806326 | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
| 2020-02-19 | Best Baker's flour 50 lbs bags | Adm Milling | E.coli O26 | Class I |
Other records from General Mills, Inc
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 37 other records name this firm.
All 38 records for General Mills, Inc
All 2019 recalls · All FDA food recall data
21 CFR 117.135(c)(1) is the clause behind this recall, and it is one somebody has to produce evidence for at their next audit. Krolda maps supplier documents to the clause they satisfy in FSSC 22000, IFS Food and 21 CFR 117, and routes the corrective action when the evidence is missing.
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