Gourmet Pistachio Flavored Monster Muffins (4 count)

Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 19 October 2016 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. WEIS MARKETS IS ISSUING A VOLUNTARY RECALL FOR 30 BAKERY PRODUCTS INCLUDING MUFFINS, COOKIES, AND SHORTBREAD AND BAKED BREAD ITEMS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL PRESENCE OF SMALL METAL FRAGMENTS (2-9MM) IN THE SUGAR TOPPING USED ON THESE PRODUCTS. THE VOLUNTARY ACTION IS BEING TAKEN DUE TO OUR SUPPLIERS RECALL OF THE SUGAR INGREDIENT.

The record

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Product

Gourmet Pistachio Flavored Monster Muffins (4 count)

Reason for recall

WEIS MARKETS IS ISSUING A VOLUNTARY RECALL FOR 30 BAKERY PRODUCTS INCLUDING MUFFINS, COOKIES, AND SHORTBREAD AND BAKED BREAD ITEMS DUE TO THE POTENTIAL PRESENCE OF SMALL METAL FRAGMENTS (2-9MM) IN THE SUGAR TOPPING USED ON THESE PRODUCTS. THE VOLUNTARY ACTION IS BEING TAKEN DUE TO OUR SUPPLIERS RECALL OF THE SUGAR INGREDIENT.

Recalling firm

Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division

Firm location

Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States

Classification

Class II

Status

Terminated

Recall number

F-0037-2017

Quantity

170,186 total units

Distribution

Products were distributed to: PA,NJ,NY,MD,VA

Initiated

21 July 2016

Reported by FDA

19 October 2016

Terminated

1 May 2017

Firm notified by

E-Mail

Product codes

UPC # 2100807004008

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 is one of 30 records covering the same recall event. The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so a recall of a product line appears here many times. Counting these records as 30 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 30. All 30 of them are listed on this page.
• The recall ran for 9 months, from 21 July 2016 to termination on 1 May 2017. 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 4 states, and the FDA published the enforcement report 3 months after the firm began the recall.
• Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was longer than usual for its category. Bakery is overwhelmingly an allergen category rather than a pathogen one: baking is a kill step, but a bakery runs many recipes down shared lines, so the failure that recalls a bakery product is usually a label or a changeover.

Named in the distribution pattern: New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Virginia. 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

Filed under bakery and nuts and seeds. A product can sit in more than one.

Every product in this recall

The FDA opened 30 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 29 below each have their own page with that product’s lot codes and distribution, and search engines are pointed here for the recall as a whole.

Other bakery 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.

Other records from Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division

The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 40 other records name this firm.

All 41 records for Weis Markets, Inc., Ice Cream Division

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