Country Oven Red Velvet Cake 13oz, 28oz, single slices, Double Layer Cake (51 oz), 8oz
The Kroger Co recalled this product and the FDA reported the enforcement action on 17 November 2021 as Class II. The recall was initiated by the firm. Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes.
The record
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- Product
- Country Oven Red Velvet Cake 13oz, 28oz, single slices, Double Layer Cake (51 oz), 8oz
- Reason for recall
- Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes.
- Recalling firm
- The Kroger Co
- Firm location
- Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Classification
- Class II
- Status
- Terminated
- Recall number
- F-0147-2022
- Quantity
- 62 cases
- Distribution
- Product distributed to the following states: SC, GA, AL, IL, IN, MO, OH, KY, WV, TN, MS, AR, NE, KS, CA, OR, AK, WA, ID, CO, LA, MT, NM, NV, TX, WI, WY, VA, UT
- Initiated
- 13 October 2021
- Reported by FDA
- 17 November 2021
- Terminated
- 23 November 2021
- Firm notified by
- Product codes
- UPC 0001111019723, 0001111019740, 0004157306392, 0004157307575, 0001111018534, 0001111018617, 0001111020737 Use By 03/18/22, 03/31/22, 04/01/22, 03/24/22, 03/25/22, 03/15/22
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 19 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 19 separate recalls, which almost every published figure does, overstates it by a factor of 19. All 19 of them are listed on this page.
- The recall ran for 6 weeks, from 13 October 2021 to termination on 23 November 2021. 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 5 weeks after the firm began the recall.
- Recalls of a bakery product run a median of 6 months, so this one was shorter 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: Georgia, Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Nebraska, Kansas, California, Oregon, Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Louisiana, Montana, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Virginia, Utah. 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
Foreign material
A foreign material recall means something that is not food was found in food: metal, plastic, glass, wood or insect matter, usually shed by equipment during processing.
A preventive controls plan covers foreign material 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 117.40
- Equipment and utensils: plant equipment designed and maintained so it cannot contaminate food with lubricants, fuel, metal fragments or contaminated water.
- 21 CFR 117.80(c)
- Manufacturing operations: the measures that protect food from contamination during processing, including the effective ones against metal and other extraneous material.
- 21 CFR 117.150
- Corrective actions: what a facility does when a preventive control was not properly implemented, including identifying and correcting the problem and evaluating the food for safety.
Filed under bakery. A product can sit in more than one.
Every product in this recall
The FDA opened 19 enforcement records for this one recall, one per product code. This page carries all of them; the 18 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.
| Reported | Product | Firm | Reason | Class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Yellow/Caramel Cake Single Slices, double layer cakes ( 48oz ) | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Caramel Apple Double Layer Cake 32 oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Cinnamon Roll 4oz, 2.5oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Yellow/Vanilla Cake 37oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class III |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven White/Vanilla Cake 37oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven White Cake 7lb, 13.5oz, 29oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Marble Cake 7lb | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Angel Food Cake 13 oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Bowtie Danish 3oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Cheese Pocket 4oz - 84 to a case | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Chocolate/Vanilla Cake 37oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Chocolate/Fudge Cake Single Slices, Double Layer Cake (50oz) | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Yellow Cake 18.5oz, 7oz, 13.5oz, 42oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Party Balloon Cake 48oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Boston Cream Cake Double Layer Cake 28oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Chocolate Cake 13.5oz, 60oz, 40oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Yellow/Fudge Cake 48oz, single slices | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
| 2021-11-17 | Country Oven Raspberry Cake 71oz | The Kroger Co | Downstream Recall - Possible metal fragments in starch that was used to manufacture cakes. | Class II |
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 The Kroger Co
The FDA opens one enforcement record per product code, so several of these are frequently one recall event. 90 other records name this firm.
All 91 records for The Kroger Co
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21 CFR 117.40 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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